EXPERIMENTAL SCENT SUMMIT

The IAO teams up with artist Klara Ravat to present a full day of informal talks, round tables and workshops relating to experimental practices with scent. The first summit of olfactory artists, participants shared their work and discussed their issues in an open and unrestrained environment.

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11:00 – INTRODUCTION: Klara Ravat & Saskia Wilson-Brown

11:10 – SCENT EXPERIENCE: Andreas Wilhelm

NEW PROJECTS, NEW IDEAS
+ 11:45 – Ashraf Osman: Presenting scent art.net
+ 12:05 – Ramina Puzicha: Presenting Per Se, Berlin
+ 12:25 – Leanne Wijnsma: Presenting Smell of Data
+ 12:45 – Daniela Gesundheit: Collaboration with Evaporation (the symbiosis of music and scent)

1:00 – ROUND TABLE: USING SCENT IN CREATIVE PRACTICE
Moderated by Klara Ravat
An open moderated conversation about the issues we face when working with scent in an experimental capacity. How can we redirect the idea of scent? How can we better use scent to tackle social problems/social change? How can we use scent to tell better stories? How can we better use scent in the context of art, technology?
Participants
+ Eddie Bulliqi
+ Andreas Wilhelm
+ Olivia Jezler
+ The group at large

2:00 – LUNCH BREAK

SEVEN/SEVEN
Moderated by Saskia Wilson-Brown
Three participants have 7 minutes to share a new idea, ask a question or present a project to the group at large, followed by a 7 minute discussion.
+ 2:45 – Sarah Baker: Disrupting high fashion
+ 3:00 – Ben Chase: Imitations of Life – The Knockoff
+ 3:15 – Hortus Apertus: New projects

SCENT + TECHNOLOGY
+ 3:30 –  Frederik Duerinck: Scent + Haptic Technologies
+ 3:50 –  Yasaman Sheri: Future Senses
+ 4:10 –  Grace Boyle + Nadjib Achaibou: Scent in the context of VR

4:30 – BREAK

SCENT + SOCIAL PRACTICE
+ 4:50 – Maki Ueda: Working with scent in the public realm
+ 5:10 – Spyros Drosopoulos: Unexpected pairings
+ 5:30 – Claus Noppeney: Scent in anosmic settings

CLOSING TALK
+ 5:50 – Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Olfactory Theatre – Building for Public Experience

6:30 – 7:00 – SCENT + MUSIC IMPROVISATIONS
+ Daniela Gesundheit + Spyros Drosopoulos

The Experimental Scent Summit is being produced as an ancillary program to The Art and Olfaction Awards, which take place on May 6, 2017 at Silent Green Kulturquartier in Berlin. More information on the awards can be found here.