The human sensorium (or the world of sensory stimuli) has always been mediated. But over the past few decades that condition has greatly intensified. The microspeaker in the ear, the drug in the blood, the nanosurgical implant, the simulated taste in the mouth – these “enhancements” no longer provoke the apocalyptic excitement… The relative calm this situation provides, gives us time for reflection: a propitious moment for artists and other culture workers to interpret, think, and reckon with the sense of our mediated sensorium.” (Carolin Jones, “Sensorium”, MIT 2006).

The RIXC symposium offers a vision by artists and theorists on the world of the aesthetics of augmented senses and experience, stretching from the earliest beginnings of sensory data research to the interaction of immersive and sensory technologies between various perception sensors of the human body.