Smell and Art

DAY 9: Final presentation (2)

2010-02-22T23:49:00.009+01:00

...continues from Final presentation (1)

Mini-project final presentation

theme: olfactory game
18.02.2010.

Juan & Pablo

Smell and listen, then guess where you are! There are 4 smells and accompanying sounds collected from different departments of the Art Academy:

Photography
Fine Art
Wood Workshop
Lithography

James

Olfactory memory games with 8 different smells. 16 cards in total. Find pairs!

"How difficult! My brain is totally confused!"

Willem

A small do-it-yourself kit with a couple of smells to be enjoyed in steps.

DAY 9: Final presentation (1)

2010-02-22T23:32:00.009+01:00

Mini-project final presentation

theme: olfactory game
18.02.2010.

Ivan

Stereo-smelling of a virtual forest "TROPI-BOS" - TROPIcal BOS.

Jelle

game 1: There are 5 extracts. The participants are to specify from what the smells are extracted.

game 2: Two of the 5 extracts are mixed. There are such 3 bottles. The participants are to specify the combinations.

Yerry

Guess which bottle belongs to which stereotyped photo. Dutch woman (teacher), French man, or fisher man?

Oxalis

Explore with your olfaction through the pungent and fragrant Indonesian market.

to be continued to (2)...

Final presentation- announcement

2010-02-17T10:12:00.004+01:00

hello everybody,

you are all welcome to visit the combined presentation of students who followed smell & art, by maki ueda, and metamedia, by taco stolk. this will take place next thursday at the conservatoire, the central station and the academy.

starting time: thu 18 feb 2010, 13:00h in room cam10-30 at the royal conservatoire, for the first presentations. after those, we will walk to the central station for more. we will continue to the academy, eventually to pb301 where the rest of the presentations will take place. we hope to finish around 16.00h.

hope to see you on thursday!
maki & taco

program

nicky (conservatoire, cam10-30)
lucas (conservatoire, staircase near cam10-30)
ludmila (central station, main hall)
clara (central station, main hall)
marloes (academy, small room)
valeria (academy, pb301)
silvia (academy, pb301)
marcos (academy, pb301)
bonne (academy, pb301)
andré (academy, pb301)
walid (academy, pb301)
bart (academy, pb301, if present)

Smell & Art presentation (academy, pb301)

Ivan
Jelle
Yerry
Oxalis
Huan & Pablo
Melissa
James
Willem

mark (academy, pb301)
charlotte (ongoing all day)

DAY 8: developing mini-project

2010-02-16T19:27:00.004+01:00

DAY 7: developing mini-project

2010-02-16T19:22:00.004+01:00

Making non-combustible incense

2010-02-15T19:03:00.007+01:00

Here you can see some pictures of our last weekend experiment, making non-combustible incense for coming presentations.

Juan and Pablo.

DAY 6: how to make non-combustible incense (Neriko)

2010-02-13T10:05:00.003+01:00

non-combustible incense (kneaded incense / Neriko)

Mix all the aromatic properties well in a mortar
Add a bit of charcoal powder (for a disinfectant property)
Add clover honey (for a gluing property)
Make incense cookies. The thinner the faster it will dry, and the faster it will diffuse smell when it's burned or warmed
Dry them at a dark, cold place for a couple of days to a week. In Japan they even take additional efforts to ripe them: they put them in a clay-jar and bury it in the ground and let them naturally matured for a half year.
Burn Neriko and check its proper temperature for diffusing the desired smell. (Each material has its own character)

DAY 6: how to make combustible incense

2010-02-13T09:20:00.006+01:00

Combustible incense

[proportion]

(1) When you use resin or oily substances (as an aromatic property) , add 25 -80 % makko to the content.

The resin or oily substances should not exceed the amount of dried materials. The less, the easier it will burn. To make a balance, you can use these as 'dried materials'

wood
bark
leaf powder

(2) When you use no resin or oily substances (as an aromatic property) , add 10 - 25 % makko to the content.

example recipe 1

4 tablespoon cinnamon powder
1/2 to 1 tablespoon makko

example recipe 2

1 part sandalwood powder
1/2 part clove powder
2 parts makko

* It's all the time try-and-error, because these proportions also depend pretty much on the materials!

[order]

mix the aromatic ingredients well in a mortar
add makko
add water gradually and bring it to the desired texture

[shape and texture]

cone: pudding or dough-like texture
stick: oatmeal texture

DAY 6: workshop - incense making

2010-02-12T20:49:00.008+01:00

Making conbustible incense (1)
aromatic material: fermented coconut ??? (by Pablo and Juan)
It smells like sheep cheese.

1 teaspoon fermented coconut
1/2 teaspoon makko
1/4 teaspoon charcoal powder (ground Japanese charcoal)

Making conbustible incense (2)
aromatic material: tobbac (by Willem)

Making non-combustible incense (Neriko)
aromatic material: violet tea (by Yerry)

1 teaspoon violet tea
1/2 teaspoon honey + more

They are all 'binder' for making Neriko.

Checking the smell of non-combustible incense made by Yerry

It smelled like bitter black tea, not quite like violet tea. So I've measured the temperature, then it turned out to be too high: 200 degrees!

So I've lowered internal temperature of the burner to 80 degrees ---> smelled more 'sweet' than just bitter black tea

Sharing Willem's project in development.

Checking extracted smells.

Where to get pocket warmer

2010-02-10T20:57:00.007+01:00

Information for Pablo and Huan.

'Heat Pad' is something that is used normally for keeping hands warm. There are different types - one keeps 40 degrees and the other keeps 70 degrees. You can use them for diffusing smells in one way or the others.

Bever Zwerfsport (also in Den Haag Centrum)

Pocket warmer
http://www.bever.nl/wintersport/accessoires/4477.rubytec-pocket-warmer

Heat pad
http://www.bever.nl/wintersport/accessoires/4475.rubytec-heat-pad

Info about incence making - what to prepare

2010-02-10T20:52:00.000+01:00

Hi everyone,

On Thursday we'll have [how to make incense] workshop. We'll make 2 types of incense:

- Charcoal based cone incense (combustible incense)
- Neriko - Japanese kneaded incense (non-combustible incense)

You can bring your preferred smelly materials for the workshop. They should be dried and powdered already. How much to prepare actually depends on the materials, but let's say something like 2 to 4 table spoon (powdered). Please remember that the raw materials should be fragrant enough. There is a limitation to the numbers of mortars, so let's see how we organize it - we'll perhaps give priority to the students who have materials directly connected to the mini-project.

If you want to know more about the possibilities of incense and incense making, these are good resources.

General info about incense
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense

How to make incense
http://www.scents-of-earth.com/makyourownna.html

How to make incense - ehow
http://www.ehow.com/how_7540_make-incense.html

How to make incense sticks
http://sjamaanopklompen.com/frameset_uk_bamboe.htm
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-Incense-sticks/

If you want to continue with oil/vodka extraction on Thursday, that's also fine.
Please feel free to call me 06-54 65 80 54 for any questions.

See you on Thu.!

Maki

DAY 5: workshop - smell extraction (2)

2010-02-10T20:40:00.008+01:00

Continuing from DAY 4

* vinyl

* cover jacket of the vinyl

Yerry: clay

Willem: Lapsang Souchong Tea, Tobbac

Different experiments by Willem to impregnate smells onto the papers

DAY 4: workshop - smell extraction (1)

2010-02-10T17:23:00.005+01:00

Ivan's 10 minutes walk of today from Den Haag CS to KABK.

Oxalis' Indonesian kitchen.

Huan & Pablo: smell of KABK. Wood, metal, paint, textile, etc etc.

Melissa: Banana

James: Vinyl, coffee

Jelle: rubber band, orange

My jewely box - collection of essential oils from all over the world.

Thanks Erfan for taking the photos!

Olfatory exercise Yerry

2010-02-09T09:02:00.002+01:00

16:34 outside school: cold, fireworks, cars

16:40 shoppingstreet: warm shop smell, fries, people perfumes

17:00 entree house: garbage, cat toilet, fresh laundry, dusty hallway

17:02 my room: fresh paint

17:30 cooking smell of kitchen downstairs

18:26 waiting outside: sigarette from a person, perfume

18:34 ballet class: warm dry smell, little bit old

18:45 deodorant, heater

19:?? warm smelly peolpe, different kind of deodorants

19:08 outside:cars, sigarettes, coldness.

19:30 my room: fresh paint, old incense

20:00 toasted bread

23:30 fresh laundry

09:00 toothpaste, shampoo

09:16 warm jasmine tea

Olfatory exercise 1: Melissa

2010-02-06T12:39:00.001+01:00

Ginger; refresh.
Champa; home
Boxes with glue and food smells like cereals, sweets, salmo, candle boxes etc.
Vicks vaporub; mint and fresh.
Tea smell; home.
Coffee smell; home

Olfactory assignment 1 - Jelle

2010-02-05T18:43:00.003+01:00

13:15 - different rooms in the house: coffee in kitchen, leather furniture in living room, washing liquid in washing room, smell from outside from open door

13:27 - strong smell of the ham on my bread

-orange juice smell when close to the glass, one of my favourite smells :)

13:45 - upstairs smell of cold + 'sleep' + used beds + wood

13:57 - outside: trees, grass, sand, leaves, moist

14:48 - inside house, warm/cosy, familiar but slightly different today maybe because I'm paying more attention

18:05 - salty, spicy smell from soup

-baded/fried smell, fat/oil from frites

20:23 - still fried smell in kitchen

-outside smell of a cosy winter evening and fire(places) -> love that smell

21:00 - friend's house, familiar safe/cosy smell

-smell of weed in his room

23:55 - tea smell in the kitchen

8:37 - mixed smell of perfumes on the way to the train

-smell of a cigarette

8:45 - a faint smell in the train, mix of paper and plastic and damp clothes (from own coat)

9:33 - car exhaust

13:00 - academy cantine, smells like swimming pool??

- smell of glue and coffee in hallway

- smell of old clothes on staircase

- smell of paint upstairs

Where to Get the Supplies II

2010-02-05T09:42:00.007+01:00

Just to share my experiences, here is the list of the places that I often check-out for the aromatic materials and mini-lab supplies.

city shopping streets / center

Dille & Kamille: for kitchen tools, tin-cans, glass jars and bottles
XENOS: for tin-cans, glass jars and bottles
Marskramer: for plastic bags (ziplock), candle, diffuser
HEMA: for kitchen containers
De Tuinen: for essential oil, aroma diffuser
apotheek (pharmacy): for empty brown bottles (10ml, 30ml, 100ml, etc), atomizer (spray), odor-free waselin, odor-free talk powder
toko: for aromatic ingredients, plastic (disposable) plates and containers
DIY: for materials
Drogisterij De Lang (pharmacy in Rotterdam Zuid): for chemical supplies, lab-supplies, essential (natural/synthetic) oils, how-to books

Nevertheless web-shop is always the best!

online shops:

Some more links in addition to the past post Where to Get the Supplies I

waar te krijgen chemisch spullen (where to get chemical supplies)
http://www.thuisexperimenteren.nl/chemicalien/waarspullen.htm

De Hekserij chemische spullen
http://www.hekserij.nl/

Brouwland
http://www.brouwland.com/

BUYSEN benodigheden
http://members.home.nl/buysen/winkelchemie.html#chemicali%EBn

etherische olie winkel
http://www.anthemis.nl/

DAY 3: idea development for mini-project

2010-02-05T09:37:00.003+01:00

[Things to prepare for next Monday]

Hi olfactory students,

Based on the scratch mini-projct ideas that we've discussed yesterday, we'll [extract] the smells, with either alcohol (vodka) or oil on next week Monday, and perhaps also on Tuesday.

You are supposed to prepare whatever smelly materials based on your ideas for the mini-project.

You can buy empty bottles from me for 1 euro each. The same transparent ones as those cheese burgers and newspaper smells.

The rest, the lab supplies that I'll prepare, is covered by the interfaculty.

Also please bring the accompanying tools for cracking / pulverizing / cutting / chopping / sewing your materials. I'll prepare 1 mortar, some scissors, and some knives.

Thank you for posting the assignment (1) - we'll go through it somewhere next week.

Perhaps we see each other at Paradiso this afternoon?

Have a nice weekend!

Maki

Olfctry Exc 1 -Erfan

2010-02-04T22:27:00.004+01:00

1st of Feb:

20:20 on the street weed
20:40 metro station strong feminine perfume, bitter sweet, lasted for long
20:50 inside the metro smell of the fabric of the seats mixed with sweat and cold humidity
21:00 home carpet + shoes
21:35 home fried garlic with olive oil
21:40 home smelly socks
21:55 " computer fan
22:15 " dish washing liquid, onion left from the day before, hot water
22:20 " fresh orange
22:30 " cigarette
23:40 " tooth paste
24:10 " the radiator (cold wet metal)

2nd of Feb:

10:10 home air stuff in the room (smell of closed space)
10:30 " shower gel
10:50 " butter, honey(flower + sth else), rotten papricas
12:20 " my hat (strange salty smell mixed with shampoo)
12:35 street bitter almond
12:50 kabk smell of detergent in the mirror corridor + coffee
12:55 kabk earl gray tea

Olfactory exercise 1: James

2010-02-04T12:17:00.002+01:00

1 February 2010:

16:45 Waffles, Sugar, Butter, rich sweet smell Koncon

18:45 Cigarette smoke Outside KABK

18:50 Exhaust Fumes Outside

18:55 Chicken, oil, mixed food - sauces, sweet "Eazie" restaurant

19:10 Mandarins and Rubbish Outside house

19:11 Unknown, pleasant, warm, slightly sweet smell Inside flat

19:20 Food, satay, noodles -starchy and thick smell, chicken Home

22:30 Sulphur (?) / minerals and salts Basin - smell of water

22:45 Eggs, salt (quite strong) Neighbors cooking

olfactory exercise 1, Oxalis

2010-02-03T00:43:00.003+01:00

starting time: 01.02.2010, 16.00

end time: 02.02.2010, 11.00

16.12 kabk -- paint

16.15 street, den haag -- exhaust of a truck and some other vehicles

16.21 train, between coaches -- salty, sweaty smell mixed with wet cobblestones

16.23 train, passenger coach -- mixed smell of croissant, ham, and new magazines

16.47 leiden centraal station -- bread, perfume, artificial smell for cosmetics, fried fish

17.06 super de boer -- strong smell of bread, some other artificial smell (maybe from the cleaning liquid they are using)

17.27 home, 1^st floor -- damp old house, wet wood

17.28 home, 3^rd floor -- strong hyacinth smell from the kitchen

17.28 home, bedroom -- vanilla, soft smell from the clothes I dry inside the room

17.29 home, bedroom -- almond cake (from my coat)

20.52 home, kitchen -- mixed fruits (peach, orange, lemon) smell from the dishwashing liquid

21.04 home, kitchen -- thick sweet smell (boiling jello powder and sugar)

21.20 home, kitchen -- canned fruits (subtle sweet smell)

21.26 home, kitchen -- rotten banana, eggs, vegetables from the trash can

21.28 home, kitchen -- strong garlic and onion smell, a bit of butter

21.32 home, kitchen -- mixed vegetables

21.35 home, kitchen -- spices (aromat/tuinkruiden), white pepper

21.42 home, kitchen -- hot rice

23.15 friend’s place -- chocolate cake, cream

23.25 friend’s place -- minced garlic, sour smell (receive some kitchen ingredients)

23.26 friend’s place -- mango, sour, sweet, thick (from mango chutney)

23.30 friend’s place -- old, damp papers

00.15 friend’s place -- smoke

02.00 street -- dry trash (boxes)

08.07 home, bedroom -- the smell of the blanket, giving a nice warm feeling

08.12 home, kitchen -- cooking oil

08.21 home, kitchen -- overcooked/burnt fries

08.28 home, kitchen -- fried egg

08.45 home, bathroom -- orange, milk, cream (from the soap)

08.55 home, kitchen -- mint, fresh smell (from the toothpaste)

09.10 home, bedroom -- mixed fruits, artificial smell, cream, flowery scent

09.20 street -- leather (passing a shoe store)

10.05 train -- old lady’s perfume (mildly strong)

olfactory exercise 1, Ivan Henriques

2010-02-02T15:06:00.002+01:00

1st February

19.46 - Clingendael - cheese biscuit

20.03 - Clingendael - cigar, coffee, Christmas biscuit

22.16 - Bus - bus smell, mixture of metal, seat fabric, heater

22.35 - Home - bread, green tea, garbage

2nd February

08.30 - Home - bed, cosy and comfortable smell

09.00 - Home - Cigarette, bread, strawberry, nuts, milk

09.30 - Way to the tram - Humidity

09.46 - Tram - tram smell: different people, heater, seat fabric

09.55 - Tram - tram smell + strong sweet perfume

DAY 2: Kodo - Japanese incense game

2010-02-02T11:30:00.007+01:00

Kodo is a Japanese traditional art of olfactory game.

more information about Kodo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dd%C5%8D
http://www.japan-zone.com/culture/kodo.shtml

Maki-style Kodo demonstration, 02/02/10

Theme of the game: a poem by Basho

An ancient pond
A frog plunges
The sound of water

Incense used:
smell 1: Juniper tree
smell 2: Shoko (Japanese temple incense)
smell 3: Frankinsence from Oman
smell -: Jinko (Japanese incense often used in Kodo)

Participants:
Team A: Ivan, Huan, Pablo, Maki
Team B: Melissa, Orfan, Jelle, James

Rule:
After the each round of smelling, participants guessed which smell it was. The team that made more correct answeres was allowed to let the frog 'jump' once. The team with the frog that jumped further away from the start line wins.

Winner:
Team A

DAY 2: How smell and taste works

2010-02-02T09:28:00.007+01:00

[taste]

How taste works
http://health.howstuffworks.com/taste.htm

How taste works - from molecular gastronomy perspectives
http://khymos.org/pairings.php

Tatse map of the tongue
http://www.musingsonthevine.com/tips_pai.shtml

[smell]

How smell works - general info page
http://health.howstuffworks.com/smell.htm

What causes a smell?
http://health.howstuffworks.com/question139.htm

About the organ
http://www.senseofsmell.org/feature/smell101/lesson1/01.php

Sense of Smell Institute: Abundant resources about the sense of smell
http://www.senseofsmell.org/

olfactory exercise 1, Pablo

2010-02-02T00:43:00.006+01:00

Starting time: 16:00, 01/02/10
Ending time: 11:00, 02/02/10

01/02/10
16:45 home/kitchen, mixture of food + tea (smells like home)
16:55 home/bedroom, turkische pizza (impregnated in a napkin from the day before)
16:57 home/kitchen, cashewnut
17:10 home/kitchen, lee&perrins sauce
17:25 home/kitchen, red wine
18:30 albert heijn, unidentified typical scent (maybe soft mixture of food, packages, vainille?)
19:15 home, cooking falafel
19:30 home, eating falafel + salad + yoghourt dressing
20:00 home, neck of my coat (mixture of parfum with personal odour)
20:20 kabk, rooibos / capuccino coffee from the machine
21:50 kabk, cardboard-paper (smelling some flyers)
21:55 kabk, juan´s coat
22:20 home, fried-oil-falafel scent
23:00 home, preparing rooibos safari (different smell-flavour in the bag - in the cup and w / wo a pinch of soja milk)
00:57 home, cold rooibos safari
01:00 home, personal scent (smelling under my t-shirt)

02/02/10

09:35 home, tea (yogi classic), spicy
09:40 home/kitchen, preparing sandwiches
10:30 koncon, storage room, closed room scent
11:30 koncon/ewp, drinking tea (earl grey)
11:35 koncon/ewp, eating banana
11:40 koncon/ewp, eating apple

Olfactory exercise 1, Juan

2010-02-01T23:58:00.011+01:00

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Starting time: 16:00, 01/02/10
Ending time: 11:00, 02/02/10

01/02/10
16:21 Dirty pipe water at home entrance
16:28 Home, Tomato sauce cooked dish
22:30 Home, air freshener
22:40 Home, Strike a match
22:45 Home,Peas cooked dish
00:00 Home, Orange Roibos tea

02/02/10
10:09 Home, making coffee
14:20 Street, diesel smoke from bus
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DAY 1: Today's Topics

2010-02-01T22:08:00.008+01:00

01/02/10

Wine Aroma Wheel
http://www.winearomawheel.com/

Foodpairing
http://www.foodpairing.be

Foodpairing in a general context: Molecular Gastronomy
http://khymos.org/

Smell Map of Rotterdam: the smell-extracting workshop that I gave at Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
http://scent-lab.blogspot.com/search/label/%5BSMELL%20MAP%5D

olfactory (experimental) project by Usman Haque, media artist
http://www.haque.co.uk/scentsofspace.php

NEA - Nederland Vereniging voor geur- en smaakstoffenfabrikanten
http://www.nea-nederland.nl/
Nea Nederland: NEA biedt u informatie over de geur- en smaakstoffenindustrie.

olfactory exercise 1, Maki

2010-02-01T17:56:00.003+01:00

test posting.

starting time: 18:00, 01/02/10
ending time: 12:00, 02/02/10

18:10, home, cooking rice smell
18:12, home, pungent smell in the wc
...
...
...

Assignment (1) - olfactoy exercise 1

2010-02-01T17:22:00.002+01:00

Smelly Blogs

2010-01-31T09:43:00.001+01:00

http://firstnerve.com/
smelly blog by Avery Gilbert, smell scientist

and offcourse...

http://scent-lab.blogspot.com
blog by Maki Ueda

Where to Get the Supplies I

2010-01-31T09:31:00.006+01:00

Labstuff
http://www.labstuff.nl/
Breedspoor 64
Capelle a/d ijssel
Nederland
2908 AA
Telefoon: 010-4427644 / 06-24409864
Fax: 010-4427644
E-mailadres: stirling@box.nl

It's a great online-shop that offers diverse materials. You can also make an appointment to visit the place in Capelle a/d Ijssel (next to Rotterdam). By doing so you can find 2nd-hand lab equipments as well.

Drogisterij De Lang
http://www.drogisterijdelang.nl/
Groene Hilledijk 292B
3074 AG Rotterdam
Nederland
Telefoon / fax : +31(0)104190913

It's an online-shop as well as 'drogist' located in Rotterdam Zuid. What they have on the online-shop could be found at the shop too.

Goal of This Course

2010-01-29T23:20:00.006+01:00

In this course you will

(have to) smell a lot
learn about smell and olfaction
find another (hidden) dimension in the world
become aware of smell and that leads to a joyful, healthy, and long life (!)

There are many ways of using smell in art. You might want to perfume orange smell to your orange-colored painting, or you might want to add rose smell in an exhibition space where you show an installation that symbolizes love.

Most of the people only see the practical side of smell. Smell is like an additives that gives a good side-effect: it functions to make you feel relaxed or happy.

What we want to achieve in this course is a bit deeper than this.

Smell has a great potential as a medium. Let's use this course as a place to experiment. We'll focus on the theme smell and communication. You'll receive an final assignment (mini-project) under the theme of "olfactory game".

Books Recommended

2010-01-29T14:33:00.008+01:00

Books Recommended

[history of the senses, anthropology, cultural studies]

1. Worlds of sense
Constance Classen
(exploring the senses in history and across cultures)

2. Aroma
the cultural history of smell
Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott
(De culturele geschiedenis van het verschijnsel geur)

3. The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination
Alain Corbin
http://www.amazon.com/Foul-Fragrant-French-Social-Imagination/dp/0674311760/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265100988&sr=8-2

[general about the sense of smell]

1. The emperor of scent
Chandler Burr

2. SMELL: THE SECRET SEDUCER.
Piet Vroon, Anton van Amerongen, Hans de Vries
Translated by Paul Vincent
http://www.amazon.com/SMELL-SECRET-SEDUCER-Translated-Vincent/dp/B000N7I7CI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265101225&sr=1-2
Dutch title:
Verborgen verleider: Psychologie van de reuk

3. What the Nose Knows
Avery Gilbert

[about media and communication]

KOMMUNIKOLOGIE
Vilém Flusser
(I'm sure it's also available in English!)

PDF to read

2010-01-29T13:35:00.004+01:00

[PDF to read]
"The Smell Report - an overview of facts and findings -"
by Kate Fox
(also available in PDF format)
http://www.sirc.org/publik/smell.html

Syllabus + Rough Plan

2010-01-29T11:32:00.006+01:00

Smell and Art
Maki Ueda
KABK PB301

What is it that we are smelling, what does it make you imagine, what does it make you feel? Could we incorporate the olfactory sense in art? Could smell be a medium carrying information?

This course will deal with these questions through a combination of lectures, workshops, intermediate presentations and a final presentation.

In this course we will start with looking at examples of art and the olfactory sense, then we will discuss the potential of the olfactory sense in art.

The workshops will first focus on fieldwork and on observing the environment with the olfactory sense. You will smell a lot and learn how to communicate about smell with others, using a basic vocabulary for analyzing and expressing the character of a smell.

Secondly we will extract smells from raw materials like soup, cheese burgers, old books, rubber tyres, flowers, and smelly T-shirts. You will learn how to do this yourself and how to compose new smells (in the most simple way).

Dates: 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 18 February
Times: Mon, tue, thu 13.00—16.00
Credits: 1.5 EC
Objective: An introduction to artistic use of the medium of smell
Literature: To be announced in class
Location: KABK PB301
No. of classes: 9 class / 3 hrs
Examination: Small assignments, attendance

Rough plan

[1] 01-02-2010

introduction
presentation of my works
Kodo demonstration (Japanese traditional aroma game / ceremony)
assignment(1) – olfactory exercise 1

[2] 02-02-2010

Discuss: How do we smell what we smell? - based on assignment (1)

[3] 04-02-2010

Discuss: smell, art, and communication
Discuss: possible mini-project topics
assignment (2) mini-project [olfactory game]

[4] 08-02-2010

Discuss: assignment (2) mini project

[5] 09-02-2010

Workshop I: smell extraction

[6] 11-02-2010

Workshop II: making incense, or others

[7] 15-02-2010

Develop mini-project

[8] 16-02-2010

Develop mini-project

[9] 18-02-2010

final presentation - assignment (2)

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