Melanie Schnidrig is an art historian from British Columbia, Canada. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Humanities at Concordia University, Montreal. She graduated with a BFA from the University of the Fraser Valley in 2012, and completed the Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories (MA) program at OCAD University in 2015. During her masters research, her interests came to focus on problematizing the ocularcentrism of western art history by interrogating the multisensorial and synesthetic qualities of contemporary installation art. The resulting dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Major Research Paper Award from OCAD University. Schnidrig’s PhD research continues on this trajectory. Her thesis research amalgamates the disciplines of art history, psychology and anthropology. In so doing she aims to address both the psychological and anthropological foundations of synesthetic responses and multisensorial perception, while exploring ways synesthesia-like responses can be stimulated by artworks.