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	Synesthesia is the involuntary union of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input.<ref>R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses" Springer-Verlag, NY (p.1) </ref>. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, or even associate personalities with objects.<ref>Smilek D, Malcolmson KA, Carriere JS, Eller M, Kwan D, Reynolds M (June 2007). "When "3" is a jerk and "E" is a king: personifying inanimate objects in synesthesia". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (6): 981–92. doi:10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.981. Retrieved 2012-11-09.</ref>		Synesthesia is the involuntary union of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input.<ref>R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses" Springer-Verlag, NY (p.1) </ref>. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, or even associate personalities with objects.<ref>Smilek D, Malcolmson KA, Carriere JS, Eller M, Kwan D, Reynolds M (June 2007). "When "3" is a jerk and "E" is a king: personifying inanimate objects in synesthesia". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (6): 981–92. doi:10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.981. Retrieved 2012-11-09.</ref>

	The term is especially relevant to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. ~~Indeed~~, ~~the~~ very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the occasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with most audio players. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the ~~past tended toward~~ uni-sensual experience ~~(a painting, a song~~, ~~etc.), the~~ art ~~of the future seems to be moving in the direction of~~ immersive multi-sensual ~~experience~~.		The term is especially relevant to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. T,he very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the occasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. In contrast to the uni-sensual experience of traditional artwork shown in paintings, multimedia art dissolves viewers into immersive, multi-sensual experiences.

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	===Definition===		===Definition===
	Synesthesia is the ~~property~~ of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, ~~etc~~.		Synesthesia is the involuntary union of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input.<ref>R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses" Springer-Verlag, NY (p.1) </ref>. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, or even associate personalities with objects.<ref>Smilek D, Malcolmson KA, Carriere JS, Eller M, Kwan D, Reynolds M (June 2007). "When "3" is a jerk and "E" is a king: personifying inanimate objects in synesthesia". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 19 (6): 981–92. doi:10.1162/jocn.2007.19.6.981. Retrieved 2012-11-09.</ref>

	The term is especially ~~relavent~~ to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the occasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with most audio players. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.		The term is especially relevant to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the occasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with most audio players. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.

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			*Cytowic, Richard E. (2003). The Man Who Tasted Shapes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
			*Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes - Ramachandran, V.S. and Hubbard, E.M., Scientific American, Vol 288 Issue 5 (May 2003), 52-59.

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	Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc.		Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc.

	The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ~~ocasional~~ auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with ~~iTunes~~. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.		The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the occasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with most audio players. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.

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			===Definition===
			Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc.

	~~Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc.~~
	The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ocasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with iTunes. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.		The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ocasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with iTunes. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.

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			Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc.
	Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc. ~~Many people throughout history have reported experiencing this phenomenon, including a good deal of artists and musicians.~~

	The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ocasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with iTunes. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.		The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ocasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with iTunes. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.


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	~~The condition of meaningfully experiencing stimuli that do not correspond one-to-one with perceptible physical properties of one's environment. - Nim Wunnan~~

	A blending of senses. Cyborg transactions. There's very little touch. But visual stimulus can instigate a physical response. A shift to photo and video culture that's very synesthesic. The ocular senses creating a somewhat haptic response. The property of ~~the Internet right now that we would be working towards. The implants~~ one ~~puts~~ in ~~their fingertips -- synthetisia is somehting technology can help prpoduct and thus help explore new forms of sensing~~. ~~Basically new forms~~ of ~~connectivity~~ are ~~synethesic machines~~. ~~If you think aobut the possibilities of~~ this ~~basically open up new symbiotic horizions that open up new possibiilityies. Like a song that opens ups new feelings. When at a show~~, ~~subfrequency bass -- is psychologically working on it. IA very embodied experience where the bass you can feel it touching you. it seems like there is~~ a ~~lot~~ of ~~opporutities to expland the horizons of synthetiza~~ .		Synesthesia is the property of one sensory input causing a reaction in another sensory input. Classic cases of synesthesia are people who smell colors, see smells, hear colors, feel images, etc. Many people throughout history have reported experiencing this phenomenon, including a good deal of artists and musicians.

			The term is especially relavent to advances in digital technologies. Most things in "reality" engage us on multiple sensory levels: the experience of an orange includes the brilliant color, the feel of the soft skin, the smell of the sharp citrus, and the taste of the tangy sweetness. Indeed, the very fact that a smell can be "sharp" shows how pervasive the mixing of sensory metaphors can be. In the digital world, sight often reigns supreme, with the ocasional auditory supplement. Yet digital art often combines different senses to create art that engages us on many levels. An interactive installation piece can produce sound, stunning visuals, tactile feedback, and even smells and taste. A common example of the possibilities of computers in producing synesthesic art is the visualizer that comes standard with iTunes. The program takes the music and visually represents the music in real-time. Add a powerful subwoofer and one can literally feel the bass on one's skin, adding another sensory dimension. If the art of the past tended toward uni-sensual experience (a painting, a song, etc.), the art of the future seems to be moving in the direction of immersive multi-sensual experience.

	~~===Definition===~~
	~~'''Modern English'''~~

	~~<blockquote>~~
	~~synesthesia (noun) — a mixing~~ of the ~~senses~~
	~~<blockquote>synesthesia — sih-ness-THEE-zhuh ()~~
	~~''rhymes with "anesthesia" ''</blockquote>~~

	~~synesthetic (adj.) —~~ the ~~quality~~ of ~~synesthesia~~
	~~<blockquote>synesthetic — sih-ness-THEH-tick ()~~
	~~''rhymes with "anesthetic" & "synthetic" ''</blockquote>~~

	~~synesthete (noun) — a person with synesthesia~~
	~~<blockquote>synesthete — SIH-ness-theet ()~~
	~~''rhymes with "esthete"''</blockquote>~~
	~~</blockquote>~~

	~~[http://mixsig.net/about/index.php]~~

	~~"syn-es-~~the~~-sia n. Physiol. Sensation produced at a point other than~~
	~~or remote from~~ the ~~point~~ of ~~stimulation~~, as of ~~a color from hearing a~~
	~~certain sound (fr~~. Gk, ~~syn = together + aisthesis = to perceive)~~" ~~[http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/].~~

	~~<blockquote>~~"~~Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in which~~ the ~~real information~~ of ~~one sense is accompanied by a perception in another sense~~. In ~~addition to being involuntary, this additional perception is regarded by~~ the ~~synesthete as real~~, often ~~outside~~ the ~~body~~, ~~instead~~ of ~~imagined~~ in the ~~mind's eye. It also has some other interesting features~~ that ~~clearly separate it from artistic fancy or purple prose~~. ~~Its reality~~ and ~~vividness are what make synesthesia so interesting~~ in ~~its violation of conventional perception~~. ~~Synesthesia is also fascinating because logically it should not be~~ a ~~product of~~ the ~~human brain~~, ~~where~~ the ~~evolutionary trend has been for increasing separation of function anatomically.</blockquote>~~
	~~-R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union~~ of the ~~Senses" Springer~~-~~Verlag, NY~~ (~~p.1) as quoted in [http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/].~~

	~~===About the Condtion===~~
	~~"Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which~~ a ~~stimulus in one sense modality is involuntarily elicited in another sense modality. For instance~~, ~~someone with synesthesia (called~~ a ~~synesthete) may be able to see sounds, taste shapes~~, ~~or read otherwise black-and-white printed words in color"~~.

	~~"Synesthesia is thought to occur in anywhere from one in as few as 1:2 to 1:2,000 people. In infant (and younger~~) ~~humans~~, ~~it has been shown that synesthesia could even be standard up until three months~~ of ~~age, in that infants may at least see sounds, if not have other synesthetic perceptions. Synesthesia is also thought~~ to ~~commonly occur~~ in ~~other types of animals as well" [http://mixsig.net/about/index.php].~~


	~~===List of Synesthesia Types===~~
	~~The following list of synesthesia types was created by Lisa Emerson. Most of~~ the ~~included terms were also created by her.~~

	~~'''sight -> syn'''~~
	*chronopsia - sight syn [unit of~~] time~~
	*esthesiopsia - sight syn emotion
	*facetopsia - sight syn personality
	*geusopsia - sight syn taste
	*optopsia - sight syn sight
	*chromopsia - ~~sight syn color (sight)~~
	*kinesiopsia - sight syn movement (sight)
	*morphopsia - sight syn shape (sight)
	*osmopsia - sight syn smell
	*phonopsia - sight syn sound
	*tactopsia - sight syn touch
	*algiopsia - sight syn pain (touch)
	*baropsia - sight syn weight/pressure (touch)
	*thermopsia - sight syn temperature (touch) [http://mixsig.net/about/list.php]

	~~View the [http://mixsig.net/about/list.php full list of synesthesia types]~~

	~~===Related Reading===~~
	*[[The Man Who Tasted Shapes]]

	~~===External Sites===~~
	*[http://mixsig.net/ Mixed Signals by Lisa Emerson]
	*[http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/ The Synesthesic Experience]

	~~===Sources===~~
	~~#Emerson, Lisa J. synesthesia: mixed signals. 23 Jan. 2011. <http://mixsig.net/about/index.php>.~~
	~~#http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/~~
	~~#R. Cytowic, "Synesthesia: A Union of the Senses" Springer-Verlag, NY (p.1)~~
	~~#Emerson, Lisa J. synesthesia: mixed signals. 23 Jan. 2011. <http://mixsig.net/about/index.php>.~~
	~~#Emerson, Lisa J. synesthesia: mixed signals. 23 Jan. 2011. <http://mixsig.net/about/index.php>~~.

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