At the Crossroads of the Senses Main Menu At the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital Companion Visualizing the Table of Contents Visualizing Synaeshesia as Constellation Synaesthesia Timeline Synaesthesia Science and Art: Introduction and Chapters 1–2 Vision: Chapter 3 - Salome Music: Chapter 4 - Scriabin Color-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky Color-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely Touch: Chapters 8–9 - Rilke The Lower Senses: Scent, Taste & Touch Epilogue: The Afterlife of Synaesthesia – Neurodiversity, Visualizations, Constellations

At the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital Companion

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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’s At 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 at the bottom of this page. 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 discussed in the book. The opening visualizations give a synoptic view of synaesthesia as a tree visualization of the table of contents, a colorful constellation of all connections in the book, and a synaesthesia timeline mapping out main events in the intellectual history of synaesthesia. In the Epilogue, an additional visualization path offers a variety of visualizations of synaesthesia as a constellation of artworks, ideas, and sensory experiences. Most images provided are public domain or are freely available on the respective museum sites. Other come from the author’s personal archive but may be low definition and are meant only as study images. 

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.
 

This page has paths:

  1. At the Crossroads of the Senses Polina Dimova

Contents of this path:

  1. Visualizing the Table of Contents
  2. Visualizing Synaeshesia as Constellation
  3. Synaesthesia Timeline
  4. Synaesthesia Science and Art: Introduction and Chapters 1–2
  5. Vision: Chapter 3 - Salome
  6. Music: Chapter 4 - Scriabin
  7. Visual Music, Color Sounds & Form Constants: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky
  8. Color Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely
  9. Touch: Chapters 8–9 - Rilke
  10. Scent
  11. Taste
  12. Synaesthesia as Constellation

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  1. Visualizing Synaeshesia as Constellation Polina Dimova
  2. Visualizing the Table of Contents Polina Dimova
  3. Synaesthesia Timeline Polina Dimova

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