Perception
Cassidy Curtis
Cassidy Curtis is an animator living in San Francisco. He spends his days at DreamWorks, wiggling the butts of various talking animals for movies like Shrek 2 and Madagascar, and…
Magic Safire
Magic Safirebegan practicing magic at age seven and apprenticed with the magician of the Nanjing Acrobatics Troupe. She has been featured in Nerve.com , Smith Magazine and her…
Enzo Lombardo-Quintero
Enzo Lombard has been in one form of show business or other since he was 5 years old. He has sung professionally since 7, worked in London cabaret, studied acting in both London…
Guests: Cassidy Curtis, Magic Safire and Enzo Lombardo-Quintero
How does perception lead to knowing? How is life different for someone with coupled senses—someone who can literally taste words? Can we all change our world view and how often?
Animator and creator of the Graffiti Archaeology Project, Cassidy Curtis (Shrek 2, Madagascar, Telestereoscope) has colored-letter synesthesia (a neurological phenomena), draws pictures of math, and sneezes when exposed to bright sunlight. After a lifetime of performing, Cabaret and comic Enzo Lombardo-Quintero (Love, Humiliation & Karaoke) began to go blind in his right eye in 2005. Magic Safire can make things appear to fly, appear and disappear (Nanjing Acrobatics Troupe’s resident magician, Thirty Seconds of Fame).
All of these wonderful guests and, of course, you will join Heather to explore the ways we perceive the world and how this affects our understanding of truth.
As a special treat, joining us in the audience to participate in the conversation will be UC Berkeley doctoral candidate in Cognitive Neuropsychology Brian Alvarez and unique synesthete Colleen Silva who experiences anything that can be put in chronological in order in space around her as a mapped sensation in her body.
Links
What does synesthesia teach us about creativity? – Scientific American
Tags: "fused senses", blindness, magic, perception, synesthesia
