Habitus in Habitat III

Joerg Fingerhut is research associate at the Collegium for the Advanced Study of Picture Act and Embodiment at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and pursues his PhD in philosophy. His current work focuses on psychological and biological models of perception and the mind in contemporary theories of situated and embodied cognition.Sabine Flach holds a PhD in art history. From 2000-2010 she was Head of the Department «WissensKünste – Art and Sciences» at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. Since 2011 she is visiting professor for art theory, modern and contemporary art at the SVA School of visual Arts in New York and Permanent Fellow of the Faculty of Fine Arts. Her current work focuses on art and art-theory of the 19th and 20th century and contemporary art, knowledge of the arts, aesthetics, aisthesis, aesthesia and media of embodiment, theories of perception, environments and embodiment, emotion, sense and senses, episteme of visual thinking, image and body.Jan Söffner holds a PhD in romance philology from Cologne University and currently holds a fellowship at the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata in Cologne. His current work focuses on embodiment, mimesis and metaphors as related to emotions in literature.

• Contents: Joerg Fingerhut: Introduction – Caroline Jones: Embodied Experience – Hinderk Emrich: The World of Synaesthesia. Subjectivity and the Brain - Synthesis – Gabriele Brandstetter: «Listening…» - Kinaesthetic Awareness in Contemporary Dance – Sabine Flach: Feel the Feeling. Media-Installations as Laboratories of Senses – Sven Spieker: Radical Inactivism: Gilles Deleuze on Inert Motion in Francis Bacon’s Painting (Logique de la Sensation) – Joerg Fingerhut: Sensorimotor Signature, Skill, and Synaesthesia. Two Challenges for Enactive Theories of Perception – Paul K. Cumming: Synaesthesia As a Natural Aberration of Sensory Pathways. Evidence from Anatomic and Functional Brain Imaging Studies – Karl Clausberg: Scrolled Voices. Synaesthetic Encounters of a Different Kind – Robin Curtis: Learning to Live with Abstraction. Filmic Reception and Sensory Intermodality – Heinz Paetzold: Experiencing the Urban Environment in its Atmospheric Characters – Isabelle Moffat: The Hermeneutics of Space in Painting: Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly – Gerhard Scharbert: Correspondances - Synaesthesia, Senses, and Modernity – Jan Söffner: Synaesthesias of Reading. Rilke’s Cross-Modalities – Wolfgang Ernst: The Temporal Gap. On Asymmetries within the So-Called «Audiovisual» Regime (in Sensory Perception and in Technical Media) – Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen: Why Is Green a Red Word? – Interview with Kate Hollett.