Olfaction Folks
Sissel Tolaas
Sissel Tolaas is a Norwegian artist and researcher now based in Berlin. While Sissel’s art work most often takes the form of sculpture and installation, she has a background in chemistry, mathematics, linguistics as well as in art. Through her research, she has began one of the world’s largest database of GC-MS (Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry) recordings taken globally.
http://sssl.berlin/
website from Sissel’s Berlin Lab (currently down)
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/7344/7350/40/40
Project Website: Alphabet for the Nose
https://www.mediamatic.net/en/page/21095/the-smell-of-fear
Project Website: The Smell of Fear
Dr. Kate McLean
Dr. McLean is a researcher, lecturer, artist, and designer. She got her phD in “Nose-first: practices of smell walking and smellscape mapping” at the Royal College of Art. She now creates projects centered around “the intersection of human-perceived smellscapes, cartography and the communication of ‘eye-invisible’ sensed data” through visual design, animation, watercolor, sculpture and scent.
https://sensorymaps.com/
general link to artist site
https://sensorymaps.com/publications/ references to various publications regarding environmental scent, space, mapping, and archiving
While browsing more deeply through her website, I discovered her own take on the fragrance wheel and wanted to keep a reference to it here as it does address several problems I have with more conventional ones.
Saskia Wilson-Brown
Saskia Wilson-Brown is the founder of The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a non-profit arts organization devoted to experimentation, open access and cross-media projects with a focus on scent. She created and launched one of the IAO’s flagship programs: The Art and Olfaction Awards as well as launching several educational programs and open source initiatives, including the Biennial Scent Fair LA (with Darin Klein) and the annual Experimental Scent Summit (with Klara Ravat), a multi-year exploration of open source strategies in scent-making, a semi-monthly radio show called Perfume on the Radio, and a perfume garden servicing the Bell Homeless Shelter in Los Angeles in partnership with GrowGood.
https://artandolfaction.com/
Website of the Institute of Art and Olfaction
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I really like the way you color coded the keyboard, feelings and odors to reveal their relationships! Would like to know more about:
– On what basis are these connections based? (Emotion aroused? Sensory? Which aspects? Is it universal or subjective?)
– How we describe music and scents using similar / different vocabularies, and how are these vocabularies developed?
– Is this relationship innate? Or is it developed / learned? Can such relationships be rewired in our brains / bodies?
– What is your motivation of making this connection? To strength each other? To compare the differences? Or to create a new experience?
– Which aspects of the artists mentioned above do you like the most?