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A must-smell exhibition at VU
Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents
Co-curated by the mind behind our Odorama series, Caro Verbeek, the exhibition entitled Aromatic Art (Re-)constructed: In Search of Lost Scents on view in the main building of VU is an extensive...
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Gayil Nalls
Gayil Nalls, Ph.D. (born 1953, Washington, DC) is an artist, philosopher, and theorist. Her work explores the individual’s internal wilderness within greater ecological and social systems. Nalls’...
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Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Klara Ravat
29jun 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Workshop: Mediamatic Biotoop
Meet Klara Ravat
20apr 2017Meet Klara Ravat, olfactory artist and distiller of scents. Klara will be artist in residence here at our Biotoop where she will be hosting a series of scented workshops, talks and other related...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Smell, Memory and Dementia
8jun 2017Scents are excellent keys to open doors and hatches in our memory. Even for people with dementia, scents can trigger youth memories. How do you bring back the memories of people that suffer...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Scent and well-being
4mei 2017Hippocrates taught his students to be ‘men with open noses’ in order to recognise and cure diseases. There is a reason that the plants we find most fragrant turn out to be strong antibacterial and...
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Exhibition: Mediamatic Biotoop Klara Ravat
The Aroma Lab
23jun 20171okt 2017We’re presenting the latest addition to Mediamatic’s Biotoop: The Aroma Lab. This a work station in which scent distillation is put into practice. The DIY olfactory lab has originally been set up by...
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Presentation: Mediamatic Biotoop
Scent as Storyteller
2feb 2017Calliope Tsoupaki, Martina Florians and Tanja Deurloo, three scent geeks, gather on the crossroad of the different ways that scents connect to memories, connotations and emotions. They started their...
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Lauryn Mannigel
Artist in resident Aroma Lab 2018
Born in East Germany Lauryn Mannigel is an artist-researcher, curator and educator currently based in Berlin.
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Spyros Drosopoulos
Spyros Drosopoulos is a fragrance engineer and is the creator of niche perfume line Baruti . Starting with a PhD in neuropsychology with specifications in sleep and memory, he was intrigued by how...
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Niklaus Mettler
Perfumer, Art director and Aroma Lab Team
Niklaus Mettler is a perfumer and art director who works with scent in a variety of contexts. He has worked with artists from different fields and established his own line of perfumes. His brand ...
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Odorama
Olfactory art, Research and Design
Of ze nou voortkomen uit de natuur, of chemisch geconstrueerd zijn, geurmoleculen hebben het vermogen om ons gedrag, onze emoties en onze associaties diepgaand te beïnvloeden. Bij Odorama gaan we...
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Pavèl van Houten
Pavèl van Houten is een visuele kunstenaar met een grote interesse in het mystische van wetenschappelijk onderzoek. In zijn projecten bestudeert hij methoden waarmee mensen de wereld logisch en...
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Marjolijn Boterenbrood
Werk van beeldend kunstenaar Marjolijn Boterenbrood is altijd gebaseerd op onderzoek naar een plek: een park, een vallei, een stadsdeel of een eiland. Zij ziet haar werk als een proces van verzamelen
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Lotte Geeven
Lotte Geeven is a multimedia artist whose works revolve around human connections to the sublime and intangible aspects of our natural surroundings, such as that of the sea and the earth. Therefore
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Martine Albitrouw-Segijn