Introduction: Intersenses and New Technologies

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In accordance with the theme "Synesthesia and Intersenses"—which was developed in several articles published in Leonardo after the call for papers on synesthesia by Jack Ox and the joint call for papers on synesthesia and intersenses by Ox and myself—the Laboratoire Musique et Informatique de Marseille (MIM), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), Leonardo and the Laboratoire de Neuro-cybernetique Cellulaire organized in Marseille, France, a 5-day colloquium entitled "Intersenses and New Technologies." Its initial themes were:

• • Extreme computing: New technologies create new impulses and new possibilities for multimedia art, which can engage several of our senses. "Extreme computing" refers to art that would be impossible to realize without computers.

• • Structural intersense, in which a structural relationship between different arts is established through a code created by the artist [1].

• • Intuitive intersense, in which an artist, based on intuition or emotions, freely interprets a work of art in one medium that engages one of our senses to create a work of art in another medium that engages another of our senses.

• • Intersenses-Intersciences: On the light that diverse sciences, and in particular the neuro-sciences, can shed on the phenomenon of synesthesia (see the following article by J.P. Ternaux).

Retrospectively a few unifying themes emerged, two of which were (1) the role of the artist, the spectator and, in particular, interactivity; and (2) the role of structures, codes, combinatorics and conversely that of chance. But in my opinion one of the most striking recurrent themes was that of what we might call "muscular images" [2], which are at the foundation of perception of both visual artworks and music. This theme is developed as it concerns music in the following articles by Rolf Inge Godøy and François Delalande.

The presentations to the colloquium are published on the MIM...