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La Moira: Main Page
Sensorama: Central Page
Sensoguides: Equilibrium

The Four Elements: (Water, Earth, Fire, Wind)

PAST: It has been six years of investigation about perception, communication, and human development. The results that followed this senso-perceptual process is called Sensorama

.· The first Sensorama was generated at a small forest with small groups.· Perceptual experiments were conducted on the radio station W.F.M.96.9 in Mexico City - the experiments ran from Sunday to Wednesdays at 23:00 PM for three years.· The first Sensoseason began with "Cuando el ojo escucha" - "When the eye listens" every Saturday of May 1994 at the Carrillo Gil Museum.. · A special Perception Gathering called "Sound becomes tangible" opened on August 26 1996 at the Audiovideorama of the Hundido Park. · A new perceptual performance called "The Four Elements" began the the 30th of September 1995 at La Iguana Azul, and closed on August 31st 1996.

· In 1996 Sensorama participated in the art-show Manos-E-Arte, with an anthropo-atmosphearization, alluding the peninsular Mayan rite and rituals of calling down the rain. · Based on the painting by Diego Rivera, Sensorama presented in the First International Gathering of Museum Education Services an Iconic Empathy Installation called "Senso-reality in a Flowered Canoe" at the Museum Dolores Olmedo Patiņo in 1996.

· Other sensocreations were: · The Senso-textualization of the "Coyolxauqui Myth", at the Templo Mayor Museum in 1996. · The Iconic Empathy Installation "Piercing through the Spatial Nostalgia" based on the painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros at the Soumaya Museum in 1997 · The Installation "The Musical Hallway" in The Popular Toy Exhibit at the Museum Antiguo Colegio de San Idelfonso, 1997 · The Senso-Clip for the song "Dime Jaguar by the band Jaguares at the Exporock in Guadalajara Jalisco, 1997· The Sensorial Installation Armony-Disharmony for the Education Center INHUMIC.1997.· And finally "The Fountain of Equilibrium" at La Moira.

Since then, we have opened a new Perceptual Experimental Center where we conduct our Sensoseason. Our latest is "The Door's Colors"

The previous events have served as experience and information gatherers for the thesis: " Desymbolizer Process Sensorama" (Interaction between the symbolic and the nonsymbolic) by Hector Fernandez, present director of Sensorama. In these encounters one can find the scientific bases, results, and hypothoses that have made possible these projects and events. You may take a look at this Thesis in Spanish. Or a rough look in Introduction (in English) below.

PRESENT: Statistically, the majority of those involved in Sensorama adat their form of seeing and feeling, reevaluating their senses as the touchstones of discovery. They embark upon a new relationship between information and experience.

FUTURE: We look towards the development of all the senses, employing objects and materials that provoke experimentation and the heightening of the senso-perception, that is, we want to pursue education through the practice of all the senses. We hope to increase people's imaginary and creative capacities, managing an equilibrium between information and experience.

GOALS AND RESULTS

· To make Sensorama a place dedicated to orienting the senses and sense experimentation.
· Follow-up on the experiences of participants in Sensorama by investigating and creating new Sensoramas from the information learned
· Stimulate and develop the senses in daily life.

There is a conference program designed to share the knowledge of what we have archived - always attempting to offer a theoretical view. This conference is called "The Sensorama Process and and its influences in sense-awareness and the relationships that can occur between experience, information, and intellectual sensation"
The main points that have come across are: a) The actual state of culture an the "sensual" perception. b) That which cannot be symbolized but is rather transmitted between language an stimuli. c) Interaction between form and content. d) Results of Sensorama, structure of Sensorama. e) What happens at the significant sign level, and experience and information. f) Proposals for some sensoramic experiments to be conducted at home. g) To go beyond the senses by going through them, to have an extralinguistic experience.

SENSORAMA
AN INTRODUCION

We consider language as a sybolic substitute of experience. Maybe it has been substituted by a broken symbolism, that "ancient homeostasis experience-symbol, incoditicable code" that gives impulse to the continium creation. The way in which we integrate ourselves in this world is by symbolization and, in a very demeritated range, by experimentation. The means of communication, the way we learn, develop, transform and comunicate, has taken man to a external evolution (simbolic) and this has propiciated an homeostatic unbalance at the internal development. We start our investigation with Mr. Pierce, about a practice of the experiential universes and a critic to the excess of symbolics as substitute of the experience. "The called musement, wich defines a process in which the mind searches for some conection between the two or trhe experiencial universes (ideas, crude reality and signs).

This wall between the experiential universe maybe will overwholm that conventional semantic when it joins the big boundaries of the antipodes ( below the and obove signs). that will be the result of this proposal, the situation is present the unbalance of experience-sign, language-no language, which propiciates the necesity for investigation if this is the cause of the paralisis in the homogenic development between the comunicable and uncomunicable. Rousseau in his investigation of the sensitive reason metions " All that is introduced in the human intelects passes through the senses, the prime reason of man is sensitive an that is the basis of the intelectual reason, so of our first teachers in philosiphy are our own feet, hands and eyes, to substitude with books our senses is not teaching us to think but to take advantage of our neighbours reason; to belive much and not knowing nothing.

We are trying in this project to know by the individual experience a little. Let us remember that we are not studyng the senses in this investigation but its worth as a process of intuation, its transmition and its possibility of integration to a common language , the interaction of sensitive reason and the intelectual reason. Itīs a little bite like beeing childs again, the childhood is a creative periof of time, it is when thereīs a balance between the experience and the symbol, because he doesnīt absorve what culture says, instead he absorves what he experiences, the world is not only what is told to him , but what he lives... this balance is broken and life is more what culture and language says , and the subject stops experiencing giving up almost totally only to the signs, not able to go over what language limits or unlimits. Sensorama is a desymbolizer process that based on sensorial privations makes up to put a crisis in the comunicative symbolic, comon language ways... because iti encaunters the subject with a reality more experienced, more referenced, to which he is used to stimulating this sensitive reason, this concrete world, this experiential universe that the subject has in the childhood.

Sensorama makes it its subject of the investigation and with this the concience to resignificate things from his experience and not from his language. It was proved that the practice in the weakering of the language estructures by sensorial privations creates a symbolic-experience, sign-meaning, form-content fusion.

Precisely it is the experience that articulates and starts the channing of learning and development. It is the excess of signs and information, that mean our actual way of life, and the deprizing of expression/content that has made possible for the human being to catch an excess of information against a minimum of real experience. Umberto Eco mentions it when he says " It results of a theory of codes that is interested basically by signs as social forces".

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