Diana Slattery

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: The Noetic Connection: Synesthesia, Psychedelics, and Language
  Writing Type: Essay
  Author(s):
  • Diana Slattery
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2004: Synaesthesia
  Abstract Summary:

  The literatures that touch on synaesthesias – scientific, art-historical, literary, phenomenological, ethnographic, psychedelic – vary widely in their definitions, their interpretations, and their degree of comfo with the first-person, subjective nature of experiential reports. The signi cances given to synesthetic experiences are similarly wide­ ranging. This paper explores the relationships among synaesthesias, psychedelic experience, and language, highlighting Terence McKenna’s synesthetic language experiences on DMT and magic mushrooms. We describe the complexities of creating and pe orm­ ing with the Synestheater, a system that provides the means to weave together, in multiple mappings, two or more complex visual, aural, and linguistic systems in live pe ormance.

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