GF Audio Interviews with Christina Merkley

Canadian graphic facilitator, coach and mapmaker Christina Merkley of Make Your Mark, has begun a series of podcast interviews with established graphic facilitators.

In her first 2 podcasts, she explains the basics of the Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation genres and shares her own evolutionary story.

Other interviews include: Leslie Salmon-Zhu, Jim Channon, and yours truly.

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Christina Merkley Graphic Facilitator/ Coach & Mapmaker Two calls where Christina explains the basics of the Graphic Recording and Graphic Facilitation genres. Call One: The Four Categories of Interactive Graphics Work and the History of the Graphic Recording & Graphic Facilitation Fields. Get the basics on Custom Chart Work, Graphic Recording, Graphic Facilitation & Graphic Coaching – and the W5s of how this unique and creative field has evolved. Click Here for mp3 download Call Two: Christina shares her own evolutionary story: her educational background, how she stumbled upon the field, how she came to work with the top pioneering group graphics firm, rode the Silicon Valley wave … and how her work has morphed from graphic recording to graphic facilitation – into training, mentoring and graphic coaching. She offers tips, suggestions and guidance for how to develop your own skills and how to break into the field. Click Here for mp3 download

Leslie Salmon-Zhu Graphic Recorder www.graphicrecorders.com Christina interviews friend and esteemed colleague, Leslie Salmon-Zhu, from Alameda, California. Leslie has been a graphic recorder for over 21 years … in this interview she shares the story of how she developed her skills, what she loves about this specialty profession – as well as plenty of encouraging advice for ‘newbies’ and clients alike. Click Here for mp3 download

Jim Channon Magic Marker, Storyteller & Visionary www.jimchannon.com One of the pioneers of the interactive graphics field. Learn how Jim’s intense experiences as a Vietnam reconnaissance scout trained him to draw, think and process information in 3D, 4D and 5D. And how he eventually left the military for a civilian career creating graphic visions for governments and Top 100 companies. Hear some surprising inside scoop on what he is witnessing behind those closed corporate doors and how he makes his living from his Hawaiian home base. Click Here for mp3 download

Peter Durand Creative Director, Alphachimp Inc www.alphachimp.com http://graphicfacilitation.blogs.com Listen as Peter explains his entry into the field via a temp agency ad in 1996 … to his creation of the Center for Graphic Facilitation (a growing online hub for info graphics). Based in Pittsburgh, he explains the ‘family tree’ of many East Coast practitioners of the work as well as a new documentation technology (called Missing Link) that his studio is working on to make graphic meeting outputs much more accessible and user friendly. He also gives tips to newcomers (steal, steal, steal) and shares his thoughts about the future of our very interesting field. Click Here for mp3 Download

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[artecittà]

Mª José de Córdoba Serrano phD
Director "II International Congress Synesthesia, science and art 2007,
Granada. Spain".

"Interdisciplinary research on synesthesia: development and
0bjective."
Regarding the general project of the interdisciplinary
investigation proposal(1) on synesthesia, outlined by Mª José de Córdoba in
the year 2000, after making contact with other groups of investigators
during the development of the 1st International Congress on Art and
Synesthesia (July of 2005 – Cuevas del Almanzora, Almería. Spain), and
through collaboration established in these last years with various groups of
investigators, several experimental groups are now currently formed to
investigate possible synesthetes amongst the student body of the Department
of Educational Sciences of Grenada University. We intend: 1º. - to introduce
and to inform future scholars of the characteristics and new knowledge of
synesthesia, as well as the importance of the existence of this condition in
regard to educational methodologies; primarily as relates to didactics of
plastic and musical expression. 2º. - to generate sufficient data to permit
us to conduct statistical studies (estadísticamente) regarding the
percentage of possible synesthetes amongst the populace; these data would
also be used for diagnostics and analyses of peculiarities amongst
synesthetes in comparative studies; 3º in the last phase of the
investigation, to hold the ability to produce an outline of a
neuro-psychological and mathematical model of the synesthetic processes.

(1) This project includes the acquisition of new knowledge that could be
useful to create new products and new procedures in representation
technologies; interfaces based on the utilization of the different senses.
Education and training; services and computer programs that permit the
design of new methods that employ multimedia and simulation systems, with
possibilities of specific applications (such as, for persons with
disabilities). Development: To be an interdisciplinary researcher (knowledge
areas: experimental psychology; didactics of plastic, corporal and musical
expression; optics; industrial physics; data processing), converted this
into an integrated project. An investigation in which each knowledge area
must transfer results for the solution (objective/ scientific/
technological) or search for solutions to the outlined common problem. Ref.
“technical relationships and synesthesics between painting and sound -
Summary of the investigation: 1996/97/98”) pp,45.-RPI nº: 00/2001/16797,
secc:1; class: scientific." http://www.artecitta.es

(http://www.sinestesia2007.info/modules/news/article.php?storyid=26&lang=english)

[información5]

New e-book on synesthesia,
http://www.artecitta.es/publicaciones.htm

interdisciplinary researcher "II Internactional Congress Synesthesia,science and art. Granada 2007".
ISBN-13: 978-84-612-1292-7 more than 1000 pages.