Odorama: Game Edition @ Mediamatic, Amsterdam

For centuries, 'kodo' has been played in Japan, the game and art of appreciating incense. For a more intense and realistic experience of games, game-makers in the West nowadays also use scent. In this Odorama edition on 14 February, olfactory artists and designers take scent to a different level. From traditional games to digital olfactory play and virtual reality, this edition plays with scent beyond the everyday experience. Even the smell of dreams - a rarely researched phenomenon will be discussed. 
https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/369913/odorama-game-edition

With: Simon Niedenthal, Marie Ehrndal, Maki Ueda, Natali Blugerman. 
Sudents of ArtScience interfaculty: Sophia Bulgakova, Sunna Svavarsdottir, Lauren Jetty Howells-Green, Georgia Kosmatou and Kay Churcher.

Odorama is curated by Caro Verbeek

Information
Odorama: Game Edition
Wednesday 14 February
Program starts at 20:00
Mediamatic Biotoop, Dijksgracht 6, Amsterdam
Tickets: €7,50 pre-sale | €10 door | Students €5 (incl. Administration fee) https://mediamatic.stager.nl/web/tickets/154993

Public Presentation 2017

DAY 9: Videos and Photos from the Public Presentation (raw data)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8Jy7JMjfXcNU0d6QW1xbGx1QzQ

Public presentation announcement

Smell and Art

Public presentation

13:00 - 16:00, Fri 29 Sep 2017

at: CD 002

Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

www.kabk.nl

Prinsessegracht 4, 2514 AN Den Haag

15 students from ArtScience are making presentations with their researches, small artworks, interfaces, and games.

Interested in smelling some odd scents? Please join us! Also we will present 15 different versions of the smell of rose.

DAY 6: Public Presentation Photos

PHOTOS OF MAKING:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31300603@N06/albums/72157665731260839


PHOTOS OF A PUBLIC PRESENTATION:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/31300603@N06/albums/72157687852355211

Photos by: Lucia Guglielmetti

DAY 6: final presentation

 Applause to all the students!

DAY 5: development

It's sure going to be an exciting final presentation on Thursday. (From 12:00 - at PB301, KABK)



Yolanda: 3 different scents in different medium: alcohol, mustard oil, and incense.





John: working on the conditioning of his game.

Thijs: working on composition of perfume for his experiments on space & smell

Maurice: 2 scents in different proportions

Gabi: filtering her "gebakken uitjes (fried onion)" extract



...and we distilled "gebakken uitjes (fried onion)" smell.  First we fried onions in the flask and...



...then distilled it.



Here comes the essence.





Tatiana: olfactory "Bookmarks" on smell and poem.


Giselle: olfactory jigsaw puzzle

Yaprak: olfactory Russian Roulet

[announcement] final presentation of "olfactory games"

Final presentation, ArtSceince / Smell and Art + Sketching Methods

THU 17.10.2013.
(co-presentation with the class Sketching Methods)

Smell and Art, presenting "olfactory games": 12:00-14:00 at PB 301, KABK
Sketching Methods: At the other location of KABK.  Probably we start at a bit after 13:30 and finish at 16:00.

ArtScience (www.interfaculty.nl) is the interfaculty of Royal Academy of Arts (www.kabk.nl) and Royal Conservatory (www.koncon.nl), The Hague.

DAY 4: development of olfactory games

First we smelled the extracts from DAY 3.

• autumn leaves (hot tincture) : Gisella
• mushrooms from Haagse Bos (hot tincture): Yolanda
• dream herb calea zatacechichi (hot tincture): Maurice
• damiana (hot tincture): Maurice
• pencil shave (hot tincture)s: Gaby
• banana (hot tincture): Maurice
• soil (hot tincture): tatiana
• passion flower (cold tincture): Maurice
• cat hair (hot tincture): John
• body odour (cold tincture) : Yaprak
• flower (enfleurage): Tatiana

Development of the works:

John:

extraction of cat-related odours

cat food


cat hygiene (with or without pee)


needles to say...





Gabi:

extracting the scent of "gebakken uitjes" (fried onion) for crossword puzzle.




laurier leaves (cold tincture)


juniper berries (cold tincture)


Gisella:

working on making the stronger extract of autumn leaves for "jigsaw puzzle".




Yolanda:

working on experiments on odour subtraction / addition quiz.

Tatiana:

working on poem + odour + imagination.



Maurice:

working on "pokemon cards" type of game with a gradation of strength.



Final presentation:

17.10.2013., from 13:00.
at the room of Art Science (PB 301), KABK
(co-presentation with the other class from Art Science)

Syllabus 2013

Smell and Art 

2013
teacher: Maki Ueda 

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).

You're expected to develop an olfactory game as a final assignment.

Website of the 2010 version:
http://smellart.blogspot.com/

DAY 1: Tue, October 1
morning:
- orientation / introducing each other
- on smelling: walk n' sniff / sniffing spaces like a dog
afternoon:
- on assignment: examples from the past year

DAY 2: Thu, October 3
morning:
- on infusing: extraction workshop
afternoon:
- on diffusing: air, wind, temperature, humidity experiments

DAY 3: Tue, October 8
morning:
- on incense: incense making workshop
afternoon:
- brainstorming on assignment

DAY 4: Thu, October 10
whole day: work on assignment

DAY 5: Tue, October 15
whole day: work on assignment

DAY 6: Thu, October 17
morning:
- final presentation
afternoon:
- for fun: Kohdo, a Japanese olfactory game

DAY 9: Final presentation (2)

...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.