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SCENT HACKATHON: OVERVIEW AND DAY 1

SCENT HACKATHON: OVERVIEW AND DAY 1

On 19th – 21st of Jan, the Institute for Art and Olfaction teamed up with Klara Ravat (Berlin’s Smell Lab) and Caro Verbeek (Amsterdam’s Odorama) to produce a weekend devoted to exploring and re-envisioning how we communicate about scent.

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MAY 2017: Don’t. Stop. Don’t stop.

MAY 2017: Don’t. Stop. Don’t stop.

Our heads are spinning: The fourth annual Art and Olfaction Awards and warm and cozy summer plans for the IAO. In fact….

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April, 2017: Stop, glamour time.

Deep thoughts about glamour, in honor of Sarah Baker at the IAO. Also: The 2017 Art and Olfaction Awards finalists!

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September, 2016: Me up at does

September, 2016: Me up at does

e.e. cummings said it best.

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Scratch and Sniff

Scratch and Sniff

At the first Mechanics of Scent workshop at The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a group of 11 experimentally-minded people got together to try to find the very best hacks for Scratch-N-Sniff.

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Exhibition: ‘Voyage dans les sens’, Paris

Voyage dans les sens is an exhibition related to olfactory art, opening on May 14th at La Maison du Japon – La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

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Little Trees: Mural Installation

Little Trees: Mural Installation

A team of ten people spent 8 hours today installing a 40′ x 8′ public olfactory art piece made of Little Trees air fresheners, on the 6th Street Mural outside The Standard, Downtown LA.

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