The submissions are open for the 2016 Art and Olfaction Sadakichi Award for Experimental Scent (olfactory art).
Interview with Roja Dove by Bompas & Parr – Institute of Making
The Institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world featuring the work of Roja Dove
Scent Culture at the University of St. Gallen
The University of St. Gallen has long been known for its integrative view of economics, business administration, law, social science and the humanities. Smell Culture is now part of its contextual studies program.
Experiencing Bern via a Perfumed Scent Walk
The City of Bern, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is truly a picturesque place. But it is also a city full of fascinating stories of de- and re-odorization.
“Ephemeral Materialities” at the ArtContainer, Zürich
In addition to the curatorial exhibition statement presented earlier, below are views of the three positions presented in EPHEMERAL MATERIALITIES: Scent in Swiss Art, as well as further information about the works.
Chandler Burr: Perfumery as an art from
If you haven’t seen this interesting talk by olfactory curator Chandler Burr about perfumery as a form of art, here is your chance.
This Clock Enables You to Smell Time – Dubai Design Week
Scent Clock provides a new way to tell time through fragrance. The concept draws on the often less stimulated of human senses to serenely mark significant moments in a day: such as waking, going to bed, praying, and eating.
Design Research
The Design Research Methods Festival features perfumery in the context of design thinking and design-driven innovation.
Our Unique Sense of Smell: An Olfactory Research Program
OUSOS is a research program investigating olfaction, our evolutionarily oldest sensory system.
Smell & new narrative experience
Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Smelly Version is just the first in a series of children’s classics that was on display at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 2015. Called Sensory Stories: An Exhibition of New Narrative Experiences, the exhibit featured technology that expands upon traditional story...
Hear smells & smell songs
Dana El Masri, the Jazmin Saraï perfumer, is “inspired by the concept of synesthesia, cross-modality and Septimus Piesse’s The art of perfumery.
Scenthesizer: Realizing a sci-fi utopia
The term scenthesizer has been coined in the science fiction a long time ago. Now it is a real option marketed as a djtechtool. Have a look!
Competing notions: high art, perfume & scent culture
This not so recent article from the Guardian demonstrates some of the ongoing confusion without addressing it directly: “From France to Dubai, scent is viewed as high art – but not in America. What is it about US’s relationship to smell that puts it so far behind in this field?”....
Ephemeral materialities
SCI is happy to invite you to EPHEMERAL MATERIALITIES: Scent in Swiss Art – 3 Positions, an exhibit of olfactory art curated by Ashraf Osman at the ArtContainer in Zurich.
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