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A brief
history
Synaesthesia was created in
the Spring of 2004 by a group of students and faculty at the Keck School of
Medicine with the hope of providing USC's health sciences community with a
forum for creative expression.
Volume
One of the magazine was published online in the Spring of 2005, with the
ultimate goal of publishing both online and printed versions once a year.
Volume Two was published in the Summer of 2006. Volume Three was published
in the summer of 2007.
In
Spring 2007 we started a daughter publication Synaesthesia Monthly. The Monthly aims to provide the Keck
School of Medicine community a monthly digest of an eclectic mix of the
arts and humanities subjects, ranging from music, literature to politics.
Currently,
we have two running publications; Synaesthesia
Annual to published once a year and Synaesthesia
Monthly.
Synaesthsia
defined
Derived
from the Greek words "syn," meaning union, and
"aesthesis," meaning sensation. In medical terms, synaesthesia is
a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of
another. To someone with this condition, listening to an opera my elicit
the experience of seeing a painting, with each instrument corresponding to
a particular color. Or, the taste of a grapefruit may conjure up the
feeling of a triangular shape. In other words, synaesthesia is a crossing
of the senses.
Hopefully,
the written and visual artwork in Synaesthsia,
will give the reader the chance to evoke their own feelings of synaestheia.
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Submissions
For
more information on submitting your written or visual work, contact Synaesthesia. If you are ready to submit,
go to the submit
page
We
reserve the right to edit submissions for content and/or length.
Synaesthesia staff
Editorial board 2006-2007: Thomas Ng, Isac
Thomas
Editorial board 2005-2006: Grace Huang,
Thomas Ng
Editorial board 2004-2005: Cristina
Cunanan, Janet Kim, Thomas Lombardi, Karen Olaes
Faculty advisors: Pamela Schaff, Robert Tager
Web
design by Thomas Lombardi and Cristina Cunanan
We
would like to thank Scott Ruston and USC's Institute for
Multimedia Literacy for their help in the production of this website.
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