The Spirits of ArtSciences
Frans Evers
Frans Evers studied developmental and experimental psychology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1979 he began researching how sound changes what we see. He later worked with Lawrence E. Marks at the John B. Pierce Laboratory in New Haven. He brought his research into art education at the Royal Conservatoire’s Institute of Sonology.
In 1989/90 Evers and Dick Raaijmakers set up the Interfaculty Beeld en Geluid in The Hague, which Evers went on to lead. Students combined electronic music with visual media, installation and performance. Courses explored synaesthesia, interactions between the senses, synaesthetic cinema and electronic music theatre. Research projects revisited how the historical avant-garde brought different senses together in art. In 2004 the department took the name ArtScience.
Evers helped establish Sonic Acts. He died on 28 January 2010. His book The Academy of the Senses was published posthumously in 2012.
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Publications
- Muziekpsychologie: muzikale ontwikkeling, schepping, beleving, waarneming · Edited with Mireille Jansma, Peter Mak and Bart de Vries. Van Gorcum, Assen, 1995. 361 pp. with CD. In Dutch.
- Permanent Flux: Past, Present and Future of Multimedia Art · With Laurie Anderson, Siegfried Zielinski and Paul Garrin. De Balie, Amsterdam, 1999. CD-ROM.
- The Academy of the Senses: Synesthetics in Science, Art, and Education · Edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei. ArtScience Interfaculty Press, The Hague, 2012. PDF on Monoskop.