Report on conference in Bonn: Sensing, Sensorik und Sensoren – Medienästhetische Fragestellungen sensorischer Medialität und des Sensing der Nahsinne
The workshop, situated within scope of the project “The Computerized Palate: Digital Technologies and the Lower Senses” was held from 9th to 10th April at the institute for media science.
The Workshop „Sensing, Sensorik und Sensoren. Medienästhetische Fragestellungen sensorischer Medialität und des Sensing der Nahsinne“ especially profited from the lively interdisciplinary exchange between the participants. Apart from classic media theoretical perspectives the participants presented a variety of artistic, chemical, philosophical and sociological approaches to questions on the various processes behind sensing.
The goal behind the participatory workshop was to relocate the so-called lower senses within the contemporary media dispositif. Therefore, both everyday examples of sensing, such as culinary contexts as well as less conventional applications, like the use of smell in the context of non-lethal warfare, were analysed. The interdisciplinary discussion focused, among other things, on the juxtaposition of the visual sense, the entanglement of sensory perception and digital technologies, and the still limited vocabulary available for describing olfactory experiences.
Building on the impulses generated during the workshop, a collaborative publication is being planned with the participants.
