A car is a means of transportation. This is obvious. What is less obvious however is that the car shows specific sensory or even olfactory qualities: A car uses smelly petrol or diesel. Driving a car even turns the vehicle into an openair-design machine. At the end of the day...
Odorama on car smells at Mediamatic
We have been looking at cars as “olfactory artifact” for quite a while. In fact, the automobile sector is part of a larger interest in the aesthetic and experience economy.
Olfactory Art by Peter de Cupere
After 20 year of working with scent this new book provides an overview of Peter de Cuper’s oeuvre.
“Inhaling history & smelling the future” by Caro Verbeek at TEDxGroningen
According to Caro Verbeek, a picture says a thousand words, but maybe a smell holds a thousand images.
The smell of the moon
The smell of the moon has been a recurring topic in popular as well as academic science. Following their expedition astronauts described the smell of the moon. MOON, Scratch and Sniff is commissioned by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and was launched there as part of an event on olfactory art in September 2010.
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