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March, 2019: A Tragic End

March, 2019: A Tragic End

Flowers, flowers everywhere, But not a bite to eat.

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February, 2019: Literally

February, 2019: Literally

This is an email newsletter. It is written by Saskia Wilson-Brown, on behalf of the non-profit organization based in Los Angeles known as “The Institute for Art and Olfaction” (IAO).

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JANUARY, 2019: Band Names

JANUARY, 2019: Band Names

January Events as Headlining Bands…

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December, 2018: Tinsel-Gazing

December, 2018: Tinsel-Gazing

An Icy Poem for Winter… And sad people.

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November, 2018: Scorpio Season

November, 2018: Scorpio Season

A man bought a parrot. It was a beautiful parrot, with bright colorful plumage. Unfortunately, it also had a bad attitude, and fowl language.

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Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions Open

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.

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October, 2018: A lonely houseplant

October, 2018: A lonely houseplant

Peaches, possessed nuns and a lonely houseplant: October news, at the IAO.

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SEPTEMBER 2018: PARSIMONY? WE’VE BEEN ACCUSED OF WORSE

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.

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Redheads, beware

Redheads, beware

During the months of July and August, the IAO teamed up with Mediamatic in Amsterdam in experimental project enfleuraging redheads, led by IAO board member and bon-vivant, Kendra Gaeta.

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Collaborations

  • 24 Hours, 15 Scents – Pulitzer Foundation
  • A Trip to Japan – Hammer Museum
  • Accident – Austin Young
  • Alabastron Journal – with Nuri McBride
  • Alameda Heart Notes – SALT
  • Aleesa Cohene
  • Andrew Berardini
  • Art Olfaction Amsterdam – Mediamatic
  • Artopia – LA Weekly
  • Blended Worlds: Experiments in Interplanetary Imagination – JPL | NASA | Getty PST
  • Cactus Store
  • Camera (in)Odorata
  • Color Factory
  • Creating Connections: Chile | United States
  • Cubic
  • Cult
  • Dear Enemy – Christy Gast
  • Dig – Bettina Hubby
  • Dopamine Books
  • Droplet – Marcos Lutyens
  • Electronic Ether – Marcos Lutyens
  • Every Woman Biennial
  • The Eyes Are Always There – Joe Merrell
  • Fallen Fruit
  • Fireworks NFT
  • The Getty Center – College Night
  • The Getty Villa – Ancient Scents
  • Huntington Library Visitor Center
  • I Smell LA (ICA LA x IAO)
  • IAO Olfactory Storylab – Craft Contemporary
  • In the Wake Of — Chris Fritton and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder
  • Institute for New Feeling
  • Love Potion No. 9 – Bettina Hubby
  • Little Trees Mural – Standard Hotel
  • Making the Body Think – Miguel Matos
  • Manifest Destiny – Zoe Crosher
  • Mateo Tannatt + Public Fiction
  • Miles Regis
  • Molecules – 5th Floor Gallery
  • Mother of All Growth – Caos Moté, Nautilus Magazine
  • now past later – Maxwell Williams
  • Nose Music – dublab, bighouse
  • Odophonics – Brian Goeltzenleuchter
  • Olfactory Art Symposium – Smell It!
  • Omni – Sage Lewis
  • The Perfume Garden – GrowGood
  • Perfume Wiki-Thon
  • Phantosmia – GHOULA
  • Post Your Truth
  • Qatar America Institute for Culture
  • Sarah Baker Perfumes
  • Scent and Society: MENA
  • Scent Bomb Happy Pit
  • Scent Robots – Machine Project
  • Scents and Sensibility
  • Scents of London
  • Scent of Mystery – Tammy Burnstock
  • Scented Screening: Perfume, Story of a Murderer
  • Scentless Apprentice Radio – Maxwell Williams
  • Sensing: – ArtBites
  • Sensory Studio / SBMA
  • Sex Tape – Bohemian Society
  • Sillage – Brian Goeltzenleuchter
  • Slink’s Pink Christmas
  • Slow Smoke Slow Soap – Erik Benjamins
  • Snowblink + Inga
  • Triforium Project
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  • Van Eyck Reloaded – GLIMPS Bioworks
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