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At the Crossroads of the SensesMain MenuAt the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital CompanionVisualizing the Table of ContentsVisualizing Synaeshesia as ConstellationSynaesthesia TimelineSynaesthesia Science and Art: Introduction and Chapters 1–2Vision: Chapter 3 - SalomeMusic: Chapter 4 - ScriabinColor-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - KandinskyColor-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and BelyTouch: Chapters 8–9 - RilkeThe Lower Senses: Scent, Taste & TouchEpilogue: The Afterlife of Synaesthesia – Neurodiversity, Visualizations, ConstellationsPolina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
At the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital Companion
The standalone media-rich Digital Humanities Companion to At the Crossroads of the Senses (Dimova, Penn State University Press, 2024) offers multisensory images, videos, and music to complement the first book on modernist synaesthesia in art and science. Built on the Scalar platform and designed to appeal to general audiences, the DH companion enhances the book’s argument with additional illustrations and audiovisual examples that could not be included in the traditional print book. In this way, the digital companion viscerally embodies the text by offering images, videos, and visualizations for a non-linear reading of synaesthesia. By tagging artists, scientists, senses, colors, and sounds, it reveals new linkages between the modern senses and the arts to conjure the synaesthetic dimension of the book.
Polina Dimova’sAt the Crossroads of the Senses: The Synaesthetic Metaphor Across the Arts in European Modernism comes out in the Perspectives on Sensory History Series of Penn State University Press on 10 December 2024. To view the Table of Contents of the digital companion, click the three bars on the top left of the site or view the Contents of this title page below. The DH companion’s structure roughly follows the chapters of the print book but also adds a predominant sense or notion to describe each: synaesthesia science, vision, music, visual music and motion, scent, and taste. Each subject heading is a path that leads you through all the images and music of the book. An additional visualization path offers a variety of visualizations of synaesthesia as a constellation of artworks, ideas, and sensory experiences.
The DH companion is a work-in-progress and will continue to grow after the publication of the print book. It will supply further visualizations, brief descriptions of images, music, and multimedia, texts in the original by synaesthetic authors and artists, and revealing word clouds. Readers and viewers are encouraged to offer suggestions for additional material to be included on the site at atthecrossroadsofthesenses at gmail.com.
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