According to Caro Verbeek, a picture says a thousand words, but maybe a smell holds a thousand images. Continue reading “Inhaling history & smelling the future” by Caro Verbeek at TEDxGroningen
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Olfactory Exhibition #2: Update
Here are some snapshots of the ongoing exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun. Continue reading Olfactory Exhibition #2: Update
Simulation
“It is easier to make an airport tunnel smell like real jasmine than to use pictures, a video, or a trompe l’oeil to make people believe that they are walking through a real jasmine plantation in that tunnel.” – CHRISTOPHE LAUDAMIEL
Scent Culture Club: “The Art of Scent†vs. “The Scent of Artâ€
The upcoming gathering of our Scent Culture Club is devoted to two recent exhibitions covering the medium of scent in the museum. Continue reading Scent Culture Club: “The Art of Scent†vs. “The Scent of Artâ€
Olfactory Exhibition #2: In the Open Air
Invisible Architecture: Scent Orientation
Bern University of Arts is offering this fall a course under its Signaletik – Environmental Communication Design program titled Invisible Architecture: Scent Orientation. The course is lead by perfumer Vero Kern and Jean Odermatt, sociologist and communications designer.
Scent Culture Institute @ Esxence 2016 Update
SCI was represented at the Esxence 2016 in Milano with two events that are now available to view online:
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Scent Culture Club: Paradise Paradoxe, Ephemera, etc.
“The Smell of Loss” – NY Times
The English author and critic Julie Myerson explores in her fictional piece the smell of a loss. It is amazing how many different associations and aspects are covered in this short piece in the New York Times. Continue reading “The Smell of Loss” – NY Times
New York’s Smell Dating
“The first mail odor dating service.”
“Love at first whiff is the idea behind Smell Dating, a New York matchmaking service that promises to help single people sniff out their perfect match by breathing in the odors from dirty T-shirts.
Artist Tega Brain, who teaches at New York’s School for Poetic Computation, and Sam Lavigne, an editor and researcher at New York University, created Smell Dating, which they describe as an art project.
Each of its first 100 clients received a T-shirt to wear for three days straight without bathing. The clients then mailed the T-shirts back to Brain and Lavigne’s “Sweat Shop” at NYU, where they were cut into swatches. Smell Dating then sent batches of 10 mixed swatches back to the clients to sniff this week.
A match will be made if one client likes the scent of another and the olfactory attraction is mutual…”
Read more at:Â http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-bodyodor-idUSKCN0WQ1K7