THE SENSES

the 2016/2017 VISITING ARTIST, SCHOLAR, +DESIGNER PROGRAM Series

The Senses series presented a variety of perspectives highlighting the extraordinary aspects of the most common element of our humanity: the senses.

Sensual experiences are simultaneously ordinary and mysterious. They constitute and construct our everyday life – allowing us to navigate, understand, and interact with the world – and are delicately complex, malleable membranes bridging our inner selves to the exterior environment. But the senses can also be deceived, altered, heightened, distorted, damaged, and augmented, affecting our interpretation and perception of reality, self, and environment. Advances in science and technology, as well as the enigmatic occurrences of clairvoyance and intuition, expand empirical knowledge beyond the corporal limitations of the traditional five senses.

Contemporary artists, scholars, and designers are creating and studying ways to stimulate and satiate the multifaceted senses, influencing our interactions and knowledge of the world and of ourselves.

EXPLORE THE SENSES series ARTISTS + DESIGNERS:

Tor Wager with magic by Shawn Preston | October 6, 2016
Institute for New Feeling | November 3, 2016
Dario Robleto | December 1, 2016
Naomi Clark | February 10, 2017
Starlee Kine | March 9, 2017