Australian Synesthesia

Synesthesia Down Under

NEWS

Music Event, Media and new Research Projects

Hearing Colours, Tasting Sounds:
The Kaleidoscopic Brain of Synesthesia
David Eagleman
New Law School, Lecture Theatre 101,
Building F10, University of Sydney
Map
Wednesday 3rd June 2009, at 6 pm
Admission free

Synesthesia Conference Spain
see below for details and the website
this is an excellent conference and brings together people from around the world.

Karen McAllister is conducting a survey on Synesthesia and Dislexia
click here to participate
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/87372/questionnaire-synaesthetes-

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS IN PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT

Melbourne-based documentary & art photographer Gavin Luke Green is seeking subjects who wish to participate in a photographic portrait study of synesthetes.

Working in a modern documentary mode and intrigued by the capability of the portrait to explore issues of perception and interpretation, Gavin invites synesthetes in Melbourne to contact him if they are interested in participating in his unique project.

He is hoping to commence as soon as possible, and is happy to work either on location (in your environment) or at his Collingwood studio. Gavin can be reached directly at gavinlukegreen@gmail.com

WELCOME to the Australian Synesthesia website.

This website is devoted to promoting Australian related activities on Synesthesia. (We are also building up some New Zealand information as well.)

We have pages on types of synesthesia, activites in Australia / NZ and links to other really great synesthesia sites.

We hope to make it a portal for the exchange of information, and perhaps even a place to stimulate ideas. We hope to establish a Synesthesia Association for Australia and New Zealand, so if youre interested in helping or finding out more please contact me.

If you are a synesthete please visit the contacts page and leave us your email so we can keep you up to date with the latest events and information about synesthesia. You can also tell us if you would like to help us out by participating in important research projects.

Macquarie Universities Centre for Cognitive Sciences is also conducting research. You can contact them by visiting their synesthesia webpage. Currently with the Monash University they are conducting a study on Pain and Synesthesia.

The University of Queensland - Perception Lab is also looking at Color and the visual System in Synesthesia. If you live in Queensland they would be happy to hear from you.

Sydney Universities Color Form and Motion Lab has research projects running currently, investigating color letters and words as well as sound to color and shape Synesthesia. If you are interested in participating in research on synesthesia this lab has ethics approved non invasive experiments running currently and is always happy to hear from synesthetes interested in participating. Email us to find out more.

A great way to find out more about synesthesia is to talk with some other synesthetes. If that appeals to you then register for more information. we hope to have some events for synesthetes, their families and friends in Australia, probably starting in NSW.

You can also use this site to start your research on the web. We have a links page that will take you to sites from internationally renowned researchers in the field, as well as prominant synesthete artists, musicians as well as students and others. We recommend joining Sean Day's email list as well. Its a great way to see how other synesthetes experience the world. See the links page for that.

Another great way is to go to one of the annual international conferences. These conferences usually combine researchers and synesthetes. These are held in the USA, the UK and in Spain.

Latest research and conferences

USA

Click here to see the details for the USA Synesthesia Association conference:

http://www.synesthesia.info/

UK

Click here to see the details for the UK Synesthesia conference and their call for papers:

http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/agm.htm

SPAIN - Synesthesia, Science and Art – 3rd International Conference. Spain, Granada, 2009

Click here to see the details for the International Synesthesia conference in Spain and their call for papers:

http://www.sinestesia2009.info/index.php?lang=english

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I attended this conference in 2007– there were many terrific papers presented but the most interesting was that there was a mix of researchers and synesthetes and artists. Quite a combination. A link to the abstracts of papers presented is here.

Please get in touch with any comments or reactions to the site. Particularly let me know if you think I should include anything on it or if I have something wrong.