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March, 2016: Bad Titles For Email Newsletters

March, 2016: Bad Titles For Email Newsletters

This Thing Is In Your Inbox. Stinky News Inside! We’ve Re-Organized Our Newsletter! We’re Going to Italy, but You’re Probably Not… We Met a Guy From Iowa. Eggs Come In Their Own Wrappers.

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February, 2016: Riddle Me This

February, 2016: Riddle Me This

The big news this month is that we are teaming up with Hammer Museum to present AIX Scent Fair – the first international artisan, independent, experimental scent fair to be presented by a contemporary art museum. It all happens May 6–8, 2016 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles – and applications to participate are due Feb 8!

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January, 2016: Roman Passageways

January, 2016: Roman Passageways

Thanks to the saturnine god of agriculture, wealth and dissolution, two-faced Janus was given the ability to simultaneously see the future and the past; one face forward, the other back. Janus’ name comes from ‘ianus’, the latin word for door.

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December 2015: Newsletter

December 2015: Newsletter

Cyber-Monday? How about cipher-Monday, instead. Here’s one for you, based on simple letter substitution: “Be bjhdxh xaotwq bwpbix vdhk hak abeq habh mkkqx ads – vth eoh hoo abjq.” – Ebs Ztek Ybdc

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November 2015: Newsletter

November 2015: Newsletter

A “sonnet”, with our deepest apologies to Mr. Shakespeare. Seriously. We’re sorry.

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3rd annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions Open

3rd annual Art and Olfaction Awards: Submissions Open

Submissions for the third annual Art and Olfaction Awards are open until December 7. We accept work in three categories: Artisan (for artisan perfumers), Independent (for independent/niche brands) and the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Use of Scent.

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October, 2015: Newsletter

October, 2015: Newsletter

She returns to her laptop. She writes about Christy Gast’s project ‘Dear Enemy’, the solitary open session in October, the upcoming scented screenings in UK and Denmark, a talk at the Wallace, and… Oh yeah… The awards. She presses send.

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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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September 2015: Newsletter

Two small poems inspired by September’s schedule at the IAO, and some actual information, too. Our first newsletter for Autumn is live, and we promise that – at the very least – it will help you exercise your eye muscles.

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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
  • Three Worlds
  • Uitmarkt Project
  • Van Eyck Reloaded – GLIMPS Bioworks
  • Watts Gallery

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