For the first time in Israel, a wide-ranging exhibition of male and female creators will be presented, each examining in his own unique language the connection of his art to the subjects of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. In addition, artworks dealing with disabilities related to the use of the senses will also be presented. The artists’ forum “Think Forward” was established about five years ago and includes artists with academic degrees, who come from a wide variety of fields, among others from the worlds of medicine, physics, biology, archeology, psychology, art, education and more. The project in Amiad brings together the men and women of the academy, the scientists and artists, and will include an exhibition of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video art. Among other things, meetings of scientists and artists, guided tours of the exhibition, movement and music shows, films and open dialogue with the audience will be held as part of the exhibition. The producers of the project: The “Artists’ Museum” organization in cooperation with “Thinking Forward Forum” and in cooperation with the International Museum of Artists and the Segol School for Brain Research are producing a project that links art and the senses. Among the participants in the exhibition: Tamar Schhouri, Aden Hevroni, Avi Shaferber, Yehuda Roth who deal with the connection between art and smell. Daniel Landau who deals with virtual reality, Lior Zalmanson who writes art for new media, Avi Rosen who is connected to cyber art, Amos Blass who deals with material theory, Oded Ravei who deals with the N.I., Eben Belin from the world of psychiatry, Michel Efergan who develops pharmaceuticals, Omari Goren who writes fashion design for memory art, Shahar Davis creates a new animation, Michael Lazar connects land and sea to sensors and sounds, Michel Platnik deals with new body mutations, Elad Zada heals by touching objects, Nitsa Gnoser examines the powers of magical femininity and more.
