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Sense Interference
Robin Deirkauf
KABK BB203

The relationships between sense modalities are studied through simple cross-modal exercises. This results in greater awareness of the connectedness of different sense organs in perception and a better understanding of the ways these connections may find an expression in art.

Dates: 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18 september
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: learning to cross-map sensory experiences
Literature: Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses, Random House, 1990
Competencies: A1, A2, A3, A5, A6
Location: KABK BB203
Number of Classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: small assignments, attendance

Metamedia
Taco Stolk
KC CAM30

In the process of creating art the choice of medium is itself already an artistic statement. To help students make conscious choices a theoretical framework is offered in which aspects of cultural philosophy, conceptual art and the possibilities of the new media are presented and discussed.

Dates: 29, 30 september 2, 6, 7, 9 october
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: learning to make conscious choices of the artistic medium
Literature: Arjen Mulder, Understanding Media Theory, Language, Image, Sound, Behaviour, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2004
Competencies: A1, A2, A3, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3.
Location: KC CAM30
Number of Classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: small assignments, attendance

Earcleaning
Edwin van der Heide
KC CAM30

As with all sensory processes, what we actually hear is highly dependent on what we have learned to hear. We only can distinguish sensory characteristics when we have learned to label them, but sometimes these labels can prevent us from hearing new things. This is the time for ear cleaning.

Dates: October 13, 14, 16, 27, 28, 30 october
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: ear training aiming at new approaches to hearing
Literature: Jaques Attali, Noise, The Political Economy of Music, University of Minnesota Press, 1985; R. Murray Schaeffer, The Tuning of the World, Shambala, 2000; Douglas Kahn, Noise, Water, Meat, A History of Sound in the Arts, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999
Competencies: A2, A3, A5, A6, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6
Location: KC CAM30
Number of Classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: small assignments, attendance

Synesthetics I: Synesthesia in Science
Frans Evers
KC CAM30

One of the consequences of the introduction of new technologies in the arts has been the emergence of art appealing to more than one sense modality. While main-stream culture became enriched with the movies, pop music, disco and computer-games, new multimedia art forms resulted from experiments with technology by artists: visual music -light art and abstract film-, events, happenings, environments, performances, video, installations, synaesthetic cinema etc. Image, sound, music, movement and words interact without being limited by the ‘laws’ of the separate artistic disciplines music, dance, theatre, fine art, literature, etc. The new cross- and meta-disciplinary art asks for a new esthetics for this art of relationships, as Mondrian and Moholy Nagy called this new direction for the arts. In the introductory course Synesthetics I, a bird’s eye view will be presented of the scientific, artistic, and technological aspects of synesthesia. Synesthesia means ‘joined perception’ and is composed of two elements: ‘syn’ (with, together, alike, similarity) and ‘aesthesia’ (to feel, perceive). In analogy we may describe synesthetics as ‘joined esthetics’. Three types of synesthesia will be discussed: 1) the involuntary, fixed relations between the senses as they are experienced by genuine synesthetes (i.e. Tuesday is yellow, 2) synesthetic metaphors in common language and poetry (i.e. a bright sound) and 3) mediated synesthesia and synesthetic art (i.e. visual music, synaesthetic cinema). Theories of synesthesia in science: psychology (Marks), musicology (Hornbostel), linguistics (Ullmann), art history (Maur) and neuroscience (Cytowic) will form a focus of the course.

Dates: 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 13 november
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: to study the basic lexicon of joined perception and joined esthetics
Literature: to be announced in class
Competencies: A5, A6, B2, B5, B6, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7
Location: KC CAM30
Number of classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: digital audiovisual collage

To walk, sit and stand
Sanne van Rijn
KC Binckhorst

This workshop is focussing on performance skills. The craft. How to sit, walk and stand. How to make your actions communicative. How everything you do becomes meaningful when looked at. How what you feel during a performance rarely corresponds with what it expresses. How to combine the body with the other ingredients of your performance in a meaningful way. We are going to look for strategies, techniques and tricks to manipulate your audience. We are going to find a mentality, an awareness to perform. We are going to find our own, personal presence. We are going to be watched a lot. Even if we do not dare.

Dates: 17, 18, 20, 24, 25, 27 november
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: to develop awareness of basic elements of performance
Competencies: A1, A2, A3, A5, A6, A7, B6, B7
Location: KC Binckhorst
Number of classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: small assignments, attendance

Light, Mobile and Wearable Zeppelins
Cocky Eek
KABK PB301

At the collective presentations after the first semester, the first year students are asked to show the result of the following assignment: "Make a wearable environment that includes image and sound". (This will be the only time in their study that the students will get an assignment for the collective presentations).
This workshop will concentrate on one aspect of this assignment and will deal with designing and building mobile, wearable spaces. While designing and building such mobile spaces it is important to find the right balance between the body, the material and the external forces the mobile space is subject to. In small groups a number of experiments will be developed, zooming in on lightness, tension and stretch, starting from elementary geometrical and physical concepts. The principle of inflatables, the characteristics of lycra and the possibilities of long flexible construction sticks will be explored. By using flexible materials, transformable spaces can be created that continuously change shape and invite movement.

Dates: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11 december.
Credits: 3 EC
Objective: learning the basics of lightweight constructions
Literature: to be announced in class
Competencies: A1, A2, A3, A4, A7, B3
Location: KABK PB301
Number of Classes: 6 classes of 8 hours each
Examination: small assignments, attendance