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Meet IAO
Our main partner during Art Olfaction Amsterdam is The Institute for Art and Olfaction Los Angeles. The Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO) is a non-profit organization devoted to experimentation...
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Exploring Skunk
Of all creatures, the Skunk is most infamous for his foul odor. Caro Verbeek , Frank Bloem and Sanne Groeneveld visited Artis, the Amsterdam Zoo, on a quest researching the true smell of skunk for...
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Paul Keller
Paul Keller is director of Kennisland, an Amsterdam-based think tank focussing on new forms of innovation for a more open and inclusive society. Paul works with governments, cultural heritage...
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Maxwell Williams
Maxwell Williams is involved with International Art and Olfaction since 2014. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the IAO. He wrote the perfumed audioplay LUXURE/OCCIRE, which...
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Meet IFF
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
One of our partners during ArtOlfaction Amsterdam is IFF . IFF is an innovator of sensorial experiences that move the world. For over 129 years they've been practicing the art of discovery, creating...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Round Table: Intellectual Property and Scent
- With: Paul Keller, Saskia Wilson-Brown, Tobias Cohen Jehoram and Willem Velthoven28Jul 2018Join us in a public workshop designed to explore new intellectual property protocols for sharing and attribution in perfumery and experimental scent creation. This day-long program will launch our...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark Maxwell Williams
Olfactory Wiki-Thon
- With Maxwell Williams, Minetta Rogers, Simon Tooley / Etiket21Jul 2018As part of our Open Smell Culture weekend, we organise a cross-atlantic international wiki-thon devoted to updating and creating olfactory pages. Writers, perfumer historians, social scientists and...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Play Party
- Art Olfaction Amsterdam13Aug 2018It’s time to celebrate the end of our scent-infused summer with a bang! Spritz on your favourite perfume, put on those dancing shoes, and join us for a festive evening and closing party of Art...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playhouse: Sex S(m)ells
- With Saskia Wilson-Brown, Thijs Elich, and Renske van Vroonhoven30Jul 2018During this playful exploration of scent-culture, we dive into the world of sexy (or unsexy) body smells partly inspired by Patrick Süskind's ' Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ' . Together with...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Playhouse: How Not to Hurt Yourself and Others
- with Kendra Gaeta, Julianne Lee, Maxwell Williams, and Saskia Wilson-Brown16Jul 2018Always wanted to set up your own at-home perfume lab? Great! Let's show you how. This night is all about making Lab-safety fun, while teaching you how not to hurt yourself and others. You will learn...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scentless Apprentice: Foul Play
- Live on Site Radio Show with Maxwell Williams17Jul 2018Scentless Apprentice is the first aromatic radio show, anywhere, ever! The live radio show features a concoction of interviews, true stories, tall tales, and cultural oddities explored through the...
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Bernardo Fleming
Everything about the sense of smell fascinated Bernardo as long as he can remember. How something as abstract as smell has the power to evoke specific moments of our lives, sparkle memories of places...
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Scent and Protest
28Jul 2018- Artist residency: Aleesa Cohene8Aug 2018During a residency at Art Olfaction Amsterdam, Mediamatic, artist Aleesa Cohene will explore formulas to neutralise scent-based crowd control methods such as 'The Skunk’ and pepper spray. Cohene...
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Aleesa Cohene
Aleesa Cohene’s work with video, sculpture, and scent reconfigures and reframes cinematic material to investigate the clichés, codes, and stereotypes that make up dominant cultural narratives.
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Arnoud Sisselaar
Arnoud Sisselaar is a dream coach and the keeper of a dream diary for almost thirty years. He researched the phenomenon of dreams in Greek antiquity during his study Ancient Studies at VU university.
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presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
The Essence of Dreams
- Odorama 26 - with Arnoud Sisselaar, Bernardo Fleming, and Natali Blugerman13Jun 2018The dreams that stay in our awoken mind, are often auditory and visual impressions. Dreams can feel so real, but can olfactory impressions also play a part in them, and is it possible to recollect...
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Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Art Olfaction Amsterdam
Come and smell this summer during one of the many scent related activities at Mediamatic. Create your own perfume, join us in our open lab sessions, battle of the noses, or participate in our...
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Summer 2018
Overview of our all our Art Olfaction Amsterdam events
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Art Olfaction Amsterdam
Summer programme 2018
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Open Session
- Scent-Making for all levels and interests18Jul 2018This summer, Mediamatic and The Institute for Art and Olfaction team up for a series of smell related adventures and experiments. Step by every Wednesday and Thursday between 4 and 8 pm for a...
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workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark
Visiting Hours: Art Olfaction Amsterdam
18Jul 2018- With: Julianne Lee, Kendra Gaeta, Maxwell Williams11Aug 2018Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday between 14.00 and 16.00, you are very welcome to step by our Aroma Lab during these visiting hours. Smell our selection of aroma-molecules, learn about working...
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Yeb Wiersma
As a multidisciplinary artist having based in New York and Amsterdam, Yeb works around the migratory relationships of interconnecting subjects, such a culture and nature, or time and places. She...
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Lieven Heeremans
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Dr Cris Neill
Dr Crispian Neill is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the founder member of the Sensory Modernisms Research Group at the University. Dr Neill is currently investigating...