Lab Colour Sense: Visual and dermo-optical perception on colour magenta

Abstract

Lab Colour Sense project aims to summarise and discuss the process that occurs in human perception: sensory impressions, the organising process, and the interpretative process of visual perception and dermo-optical perception (DOP). During the 4th Arts and Technology Forum of the Education College of the University of Coimbra (ESEC), Art and Design students were invited to analyse their cognitive process during the contact with the colour magenta with the intent to investigate the dialogues between body and colour during the painting practice, through self-experience and self-analysis. This class project attempts to abstract oneself from their own experience, wherein the methodological process is to investigate how participants create their methods which lead to their actions/experiences with colour. The writings of the participants are very critical to see what ‘colour thoughts’ might be in their insights in attempts to understand something more of the substance and nature of colour.