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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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JANUARY, 2018: CUNNING LINGUISTS

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.

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December, 2017: Cypriot Goddesses

December, 2017: Cypriot Goddesses

The First Perfume Factory on Record.

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November, 2017: Daddy Issues

November, 2017: Daddy Issues

George has a friend in St. Petersburg, but his dad *really* doesn’t believe him.

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5th Annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions close Nov. 1

5th Annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions close Nov. 1

There are only two weeks left in which to submit to the fifth annual Art and Olfaction Awards. Online submissions close on November 1, and we ask that all packages be received on or before November 14.

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October, 2017: Humblebrags

October, 2017: Humblebrags

It’s October, and we’re seeing gold: Art and Olfaction Awards are open for submission!

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September, 2017: Rizzo’s Lament

September, 2017: Rizzo’s Lament

Ever watched Grease? We always identified with Rizzo, the misunderstood bad girl.

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AUGUST UPDATES: INTERNAL STRATEGY MEMO

AUGUST UPDATES: INTERNAL STRATEGY MEMO

Esteemed colleagues and friends… A brief note about how to communicate with Americans.

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August, 2017: Future Search Histories

August, 2017: Future Search Histories

Google me this: Past and future search histories converge in August, at the IAO.

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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
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