[PROGRAMME]

    up date 4 august 2025

23th October 2025// OPENING

09.00-10.00

[REGISTRATION]

Convento de Capuchinos. Paseo de los Álamos

(Calle del Obispo Ceballos 1, 23680, Alcalá la Real, Jaén)

10.00-10.30

[OPENING CEREMONY]

Mesa de Honor inaugural

Excmo. Alcalde de Alcalá la Real: D. Marino Aguilera Peñalver.

Rector Magnífico de la Universidad de Granada: D. Pedro Mercado

Presidente FIAC: D. Jesús Caidedo Bernabé

Directoras del VIII Congreso Internacional de Sinestesia, Ciencia y Arte: Dña. María José de Córdoba Serrano y Dña Dina Riccò

10.30-11.15

[GUEST SPEAKER / CONFERENCIA INAUGURAL]

Sinestesia Dulce y Sabrosa

Antonio Carvajal (Universidad de Granada)

11.15-11.45

[BREAK]

23th October 2025 //Synesthesia Neuroscience and Psichology

Chairs: Helena Melero Carrasco (Universidad Complutense Madrid); Oscar Iborra (Universidad de Granada),Noam Sagiv, Brunel University, London)

11.45-12.15

[KS] Unravelling Synaesthesia: Genetic and Environmental Contributions, Subtypes, and Links to Neurodiversity and Mental Health/Desentrañando la sinestesia: Contribuciones genéticas y ambientales, subtipos y vínculos con la neurodiversidad y la salud mental

Janina Neufeld (Center of Neurodevelopmental Disorders at Karolinska Institutet, KIND)

12.15-12.45

[LP]The Emotional Binding Theory of Synesthesia at 12: Lessons from neuroscience.

Helena Melero (Departamento de Psicobiología y Metodología en Ciencias del Comportamiento, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

13.15-15.00

[LUNCH BREAK]

15.00-15.30

[KS] Sinestesia artificial con concurrente temperatura (en no sinestetas)

Emilio Gómez Milán, Oscar Iborra (University of Granada, Spain)

15.30-15.50

[BP] Synaesthesia: From Evolutionary Adaptation to Trainable Cognitive Potential

Ke Jiang (School of Teacher Education in Lishui University, China)

ZixiuJiang (Shanghai Sivona Education Technology Co. Ltd)

15.50-16-10

[LP] On “grapheme”color synesthesia: is the grapheme the fundamental “unit” of synesthetic perception?

Nicholas Root (Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam)

and The Cross-Language Synesthesia Consortium (members of the consortium who contributed data to the present work: Barbara Balawejder, Katarzyna Kolodziejczyk, Flora Parragi, and Yijia Zhang (University of Amsterdam); Pushpita Bhattacharyya (University of California San Diego); Ofek Salama and Amir Amedi (Reichman University)

16.10-16.30

[LP] The Synaesthetic Personality: Traits and Characteristics of Synaesthetes

Jasmin Rani Sinha (Synaesthesia Coaching / edition synaisthesis Belgium/Germany)

16.30-16.50

BP] Synaesthesia and Cross Modal Correspondence. Where Synaesthetes And Non-Synaesthetes Differ. Does Emotion Hold the Key?

Luke Lucas (London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom) 

Dr Yanbo Hu (London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)

23th October 2025 //Synesthesia and Arts

Chairs: Mª José de Córdoba (University of Granada), Ninghui Xiong (Delegation FIAC, China)

16.50-17.15

[KS] The fictionalisations of experience and personification of feeling; this is not a sound/Las ficcionalizaciones de la experiencia y la personificación del sentimiento; esto no es un sonido

Timothy B. Layden (Multi-disciplinary artist, PhD and art educator, London & FIAC)

17.15-17.30

[BP] Luces y sonoridades. Un taller para crear narrativasexpandidas

Ângelo Dimitre Gomes Guedes (Centro Universitário do Distrito Federal, UDF, Brazil) Maria José deCórdoba Serrano (Universidad de Granada &FIAC)

17.30-17.45

[BP] Fotografía, música y extrañamiento Photography, music and estrangement

Francisco José Sánchez Montalbán (Universidad de Granada)

Rafael Peralbo Cano (Universidad de Granada)

17.45-18.00

[BP] Painting Music: When Synaesthesia reveals the color of sounds

Thierry Gabrielle (Artist, France)

18.00-18.15

[BP] Sinestesia, Artes de Cristal (Vidrio) y Arqueología de la ÉpocaRomana

Mohamed Ahmed Radi Abouarab (University Kafrelsheik, Egipt)

Hadir Takyeldin Mahmoud Mohamed (University Kafrelsheik, Egipt)

18.15-18.30

[BREAK]

18.30-18.45

[BP]The Enigma of Chromossonia: Metamorphoses in the Imaginary

Sérgio R. Basbaum (Pontificia Universidade Católica, Brazil)

Marvin Oliver Schneider (Centro Universitário SENAC, Brazil)

18.45-19.15

[RT]Synaesthesia Insights: Joining Scientists and Artists. Discussion 1

Debate with: Anton Sidoroff-Dorso, Noam Sagiv, Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum,

and Timothy B. Layden

23th October 2025 // Poster session

19.15-20.00

[PO] The music of the line. An artistic-synesthetic approach to translating sound through linear graphics / La música de la línea. Aproximaciónartístico-sinestésicaalatraducción del sonido a través de la gráfica linear

Natalia Herrera-Pombero (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Seville, Spain)

[PO] Synesthesia Through Graphic Memoir: A Poster Presentation

Ruth Glasser (University of Connecticut, Associate Professor in Residence, Emerita, United States of America)

[PO] La Sinestesia como Metodología e nel aprendizaje de las Artes Plásticas / Synaesthesia as a Methodology in the Learning of Visual Arts

Carlos Jiménez Santander (UniversidadAutónoma de Madrid, Spain)

[PO] Eran sonidos para la pintura

Víctor Silva Castejón (Universidad Centroccidental Lisandro Alvarado, Venezuela)

[PO] Beyond the Senses: Exploring Synaesthesia in Artistic Creation

Amaia Salazar Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV) Spain

20.00

[EXP] InauguraciónExposición Internacional Antológica Arte y Sinestesia / Opening International Art Exhibition: Synaestesia and Art + Project Swift

Palacio Abacial

24th October 2025 //Synesthesia and Design

Chairs: Dina Riccò and Weihuan Hou (Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Keynote Speaker: Michael Haverkamp (Specialist at Ford WerkeGmbH Köln, Germany)

09.30-10.00

[REGISTRATION]

10.00-10.45

[KS] The challenge of multi-sensory and synaesthetic design

Michael Haverkamp (Specialist at Ford WerkeGmbH Köln, Germany)

10.45-11.15

[LP] Sound and Synaesthesia. A holistic perspective to exhibition design

Micol Riva (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Yi Zhang (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Raffaella Trocchianesi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

11.15-11.30

[BP] Effect of Synesthesia in Textile printing designs between client awarness and purchases

Heba Mohamed Okasha Abu Elkamal Elsayegh (Faculty of Applied Arts, Benha University Country, Egypt)

11.30-12.00

[LP] Synaesthesia and Accessibility: Coherent Sensory Translations for Access to Arts and Design in the Museums

Dina Riccò (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Weihuan Hou (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

12.00-13.00

[VIDEOS] Opening: MuVi7. Video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music

[video projection] [then in a loop for the entire duration of the conference]

13.00-15.00

[LUNCH BREAK]

24th October 2025 //Synesthesia and Music

Chair: Umut Eldem (Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium)

Keynote Speaker: Joerg Jewanski (Department of Musicology, University of Vienna)

15.00-15.45

[KS] Audiovisual synesthesia: How many types of auditory input are there?

Jörg Jewanski (Institute of Musicology, University of Vienna, Austria)

15.45-16.15

[LP] Musical Synesthesia: A Study of Five Musicians

Greta Berman (Professor Emerita, The Juilliard School, USA)

16.15-16.30

[BP] Exploring the Art of Musical Intellectual Synesthesia in Pedagogy and Practice

Shen Nalin (Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, China/New Zealand)

16.30-16.45

[BP] Exploring the impact of synaesthesia on music composition

Eloise M. Whitehead

Solange Glasser

Gary E. McPherson

(Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne, Australia)

16.45-17.00

[BP] Modelling the phenomenological aspects of a music composer’s sound-colour synaesthesia in virtual reality

Solange Glasser

Ben Loveridge

Zinia Chan

(Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Australia)

17.00-17.15

[BP] Synaesthetic approaches in the work and music of the emu-ensemble

Andreas Grünvogel-Hurst, Christine Söffing / EMU-Ensemble, Ulm University

17.15-17.30

[BP] From Sound to Story: Music-Colour Synaesthesia and Narrative Construction in Expert Musicians

Caroline Curwen ( Durham University. United Kingdom)

24th October 2025 //Synesthesia and Medecine

Keynote Speaker: Sean A. Day (Trident Technical College, United States)

17.30-18.00

[KS] An overview of research on language-based synaesthesia / Panorama de la investigación sobre la sinestesia basada e nel lenguaje

Sean A. Day (Trident Technical College, United States)

18.00-18.15

[BP] Eficacia de lostratamientos de Psico-biorresonanciaScInte® en trastornosmentales y des equilibrios metabólicos relacionados / ScInte Psycho Bioresonance Therapy. The effectiveness of S-PBT treatments in psychic disorders and related metabolic imbalances

Gloria Bova (Operadora de Medicina Integrada, Independent researcher,Milan, Italy)

18.15-18.30

[BP] Applying Biomimicry as an Approach to Synesthesia to Achieve a Distinctive User Experience

Magdoline Elsayed Hassaneen (Benha University, Egypt)

24th October 2025 // Poster session

18.30-19.00

[Po] Are You a Polyglot? No, I Am a Synesthete

Lecture by Smadar Frisch, Host and Podcaster of Chromatic Minds – A Synesthete Podcast

[Po] Beyon the Visible: Synesthetic and Inmersive Field in the fenomenology of Contemporary Art

Xiang Cheng LU (Post-doc Tsinghua University)

[Po] The Spatial Identities and Synaesthetic Symbolism of the Zhigong Hall as the Feudal Imperial Examination Hall in Yunnan, China

Ling Wang (Yunnan University, P. R. China)

Wei Sun (Yunnan University, P. R. China)

25th October 2025//Synesthesia and Linguistic

Chair: Laura Carlucci (Department of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada)

Keynote Speaker: Anton Sidoroff-Dorso (Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

09.00-09.15

[REGISTRATION]

9.15-10.00

[KS] The influence of language on colour discrimination in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes: Insights from the "Russian blues" effect

Anton Sidoroff-Dorso

(Psychology Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)

10.00-10.30

[LP] An Ancient Synaesthesia Legend of Chinese Calligraphy or not: a study of synaesthesia in Chinese language

Ninghui Xiong (Chinese Synaesthesia Alliance P.R. China)

Zihan Yu (Solebury School, Pennsylvania, USA)

ChenyiYu (Yang Pu Bilingual School, Shanghai, P.R. China)

DuoduoHu(Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, P.R. China)

10.30-10.45

[BP] Micro-phenomenological interviews to study synaesthetic phenomena and shed light on the dynamics of language

Emilie Magnat (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Emmanuelle Prak-Derrington (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Matthieu Quignard (CNRS, ENS de Lyon, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Lorraine Ménière (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

10.45-11.00

[BP] The evolution of synesthetic colours in enunciation: colour stratification

Lorraine Ménière

(ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Université Lumière Lyon 2)

11.00-11.15

[BREAK]

11.15-11.45

[LP] Exploring the Linguistic Manifestations of Synaesthesia in Artwork Audio Descriptions

Silvia Dini (University of Parma, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Industries, Italy)

Weihuan Hou (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, Italy)

11.45-12.15

[LP] Audio description of the visual arts for the blind and visually impaired. Cognitive and synaesthetic bases of an intersemiotic translation/ La audiodescripción de las artesvisuales para personas con discapacidad visual. Bases cognitivas y sinestésicas de unatraducciónintersemiótica

Laura Carlucci

(University of Granada,Department of Translation and Interpreting, Spain)

12.15-12.45

[LP] On “grapheme”-color synesthesia: is the grapheme the fundamental “unit” of synesthetic perception?

Nicholas Root University of Amsterdam Netherlands

12.45-15.00

[LUNCH BREAK]

25th October 2025//Synesthesia and Literature

Chairs: Francisco Acuyo Donaire (Poet, writer, publisher, Granada)

15.00-15.30

[LP] Sinestesia y Metacognición

Francisco Acuyo Donaire (FIAC and UGR, Granada. España)

15.30-16.00

[LP] Science and Art. Synaesthesia and Hypermnesia in Contemporary

Literature

Nadine Nadia Sigalov (The University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

25th October 2025//Synesthesia and Philosophy

Chairs: Francisco Acuyo Donaire (Poet, writer, publisher, Granada)

16.00-16.45

[KS] Why is synesthetic perception interesting for philosophers?

Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy, Poland)

16.45-17.00

[BP] Sensitivity and Creativity: Synaesthesia Awareness for Engineering Students in Northwestern Polytechnical University

Xiaodi Sun (Northwestern Polytechinical University P.R. China)

Ninghui Xiong (Chinese Synaesthesia Alliance P.R. China)

17.00-17.30

[LP] Emerging Research on Synaesthesia

Jamie Ward (School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom)

17.30-18.00

[LP] Synesthetic Photisms, Hypnagogic, and Hypnopomic Visions: Lost and Found

Carol Steen (Touro University, United States)

18.00-18.15

[BP] Synesthetic Skies. Exploring the Aurora Borealis Through Multisensory Perception

CC Hart (artist and IASAS Secretary, USA)

Concetta Abatte (artist, USA)

Carrie C. Firman (artist and graphic designer, USA)

Jasmin Rani Sinha (synaesthesia consultant, Belgium / Luxembourg / Germany)

Simon Van Wees (artist, Netherlands)

25th October 2025//Synesthesia and Technology

Chairs: André Rángel, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal), Paz Tornero (Faculty of Fine Arte, University of Granada) 

18.15-19.00

[KS] "Metamorfosis"

Sergio Basbaum (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brasil)

19.00-19.30

[LP] Synesthesia Gallery 2 AR: Learning about the Creativity of Cross-Modal Perception and Neuroesthetics of the Gallery Game Outdoors

Svetlana Rudenko (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Richard Roche (Maynooth University, Ireland)

Mads Haahr (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

19.30-19.45

[BP] Translating Desire:A Proof-of-Concept Project for a Low-Cost, Portable Microcontroller System to Explore Sexual Arousal and Synesthetic Perception

Rudolf Arnold (SEADS Collective, Germany)

19.45-20.00

[BP] The Smell of Gold Making a synaesthetic perfume

Raewyn Turner (Artist New Zealand)

20.00-20-30

[BREAK]

25th October 2025//Live-Cinema Performance

Teatro Martínez Montañés

20.30

a-Cinema“visualflux 2.0”

Sergio Basbaum, Dino Vicente, Rodrigo Gontijo

Sonoridades especulativas e indeterminadas de la ciencia 2.0

Huma Artists (Cristina Palmese, Jesús Segura, Julián Elvira, Raúl León, Jaime Munárriz, Yadira Fernanda Boada Acosta, Alejandro Vignoni, Paz Tornero/Principal Investigator)

//Around synesthesia and multisensory from Arab countries

[Po] The integration of the senses (Synesthesia) in ophthalmology through the (Al-Kamil fi al-Sina'a al-Tibbiya)

Ali bin Al-Abbas Hessa Aljabr(King Saud University Saudi Arabia)

[Po] The integration of the senses and their role in sensory interconnectedness in the design of products for people with disabilities

Rehab Mahmoud Elhebary(Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

[Po] Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Printed Textile Trends and Designing Future Fashion.

RashaRagab Ibrahim Hussein Badawy(Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

[Po] Integrating AI with smart materials in interior design: Towards residential environments that interact with the user in real time to achieve human comfort

Mahmoud Mohamed Elshahat Abdelmetwaly (Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Egypt)

[Po] Symbolic Trends in Contemporary Visual Design:

An Analytical Study of the Use of Symbols in Print Media and Digital Platforms within the Egyptian Context

Doaa Elmantawy (Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University,

Faculty of Arts and Design, King Salman International University

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt)

Mysara Almoteey (Faculty of Applied Arts, Egyptian Russian University

Cairo, Egypt)

[Po] Production of Green and Yellow Ceramic Composites from Chromium-Doped Glass Cullet: A Study on the Effect of Colors on Human’s Psychology  

Marwa Sadek (Faculty of Applied Art, Badar University, Cairo, Egypt)

Esmat M.A. Hamzawy (Glass Research Department, National Research Centre, Egypt)

Zeinab A. Abd El-Shakour (Geological Sciences Department, National Research Centre, Egypt)

23-25th October 2025// Exhibitions

A selection of the best videos from the contest:

MuVi7. International exhibition of video and moving image on synesthesia and visual music

The videos are shown at Faculty of Fine Arts “Alonso CanoUniversity of Granada, and Palacio Abacialand Convento de Capuchinos, Alcalá la Real (Jaén, Spain)

International Art and Synesthesia Exhibition Antological + Project Swift

Palacio Abacial, 23 October -9 November 2025

Carrera de las Mercedes, 31 (Alcalá la Real, Jaén)

1. [For the entire duration of the conference, 23-25 October 2025, posters, videos and works will be exhibited]

2. [Todoslosparticipantes del Congreso, registrados, podrán visitar elcomplejomonumental Castillo de la Mota gratuitamente]