A man bought a parrot. It was a beautiful parrot, with bright colorful plumage. Unfortunately, it also had a bad attitude, and fowl language.
November, 2018: Scorpio Season
Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions Open
The yearly beastie we call The Art and Olfaction Awards has launched again, with submissions open until November 15, 2018.
October, 2018: A lonely houseplant
Peaches, possessed nuns and a lonely houseplant: October news, at the IAO.
SEPTEMBER 2018: PARSIMONY? WE’VE BEEN ACCUSED OF WORSE
September is about change change change! Open Sourcing Smell Culture kicks into gear, we open submissions for the awards soon, and – as always – much much more.
August 2018: Amsterdamming
“What have you been *up* to?” is a question that we’re getting a lot of this summer. We get it. Our Instagram feed has become flooded by unexpected images: People wearing full gauze body suits for instance…
SCENT HACKATHON: DAY 2
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.
JANUARY, 2018: CUNNING LINGUISTS
Researching Tapputi, we got lost in an ancient language internet wormhole. Somewhere between ooh-ing at the cuneiform wedges of Babylonian tablets, and aah-ing at the astoundingly alien sound of Ancient Greek, we found these radio announcer tests.
December, 2017: Cypriot Goddesses
The First Perfume Factory on Record.
November, 2017: Daddy Issues
George has a friend in St. Petersburg, but his dad *really* doesn’t believe him.