Insight: Alienarium 5, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s new solo show at The Serpentine Gallery
Over 100 years ago the celebrated fiction writer H.G. Wells wrote one of the first science fiction novels to explore relations between humans and extra…
Exhibition: ‘Living with Scents’ at MCD (San Francisco), exploring culturalisation of all things olfactory
Guest curators Clara Muller and Elisabetta Pisu present Living with Scents, an exhibition that gives an overview of contemporary olfactory design projects and their various…
Online workshop: ‘Tangible Memories’ by Unbore
You know when you hear a song, and it transports you to a nostalgic memory? Or when you catch a smell of delicious food that…
Exhibition: ‘Scalable Skeletal Escalator’ by Isabel Lewis at Kunsthalle Zürich
Isabel Lewis is a Berlin-based artist whose career began in the context of contemporary dance but in recent years her works have broken with the…
To Boldly Smell What No Man Has Smelled Before by Clara Muller
Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the Apollo XI mission successfully landed on the Moon. Half a billion Earthlings anxiously watched as American astronauts…
Festival: Golden Nica Ars Electronica 2019
The Ars Electronica was born in 1979 with the premise of providing room for experimentation, evaluation and reinvention and later in 1987, the Prix Ars…
Biomedia, Design, Interviews, Scout & Trends
KLARA RAVAT, uniting the olfactory sensorial experience and cognition
Unlike other animals, humans have evolved to rely mostly on our sense of vision. Still, the sense of smell remained one of the most…
Biomedia, Interviews, Series, Unsound
GEZA SCHOEN, chemistry, smell, and art
Escentric Molecules, a project developed by the Berlin-based olfactory artist Geza Schoen is a project that highlights the still unfairly ignored Iso E Super…
Workshop: Making Scents; Art & the Olfactory by Frieze Academy
They say smell is one of the most powerful evocative of the senses. Memories seem intricately bounded to certain smalls and vice-versa. Frieze Academy…
MIRIAM SIMUN, the implications of global warming and climate change
Miriam Simun is a research-based artist blurring the boundaries between art and social change: ecological, historical and technical. One of the central axis of her…
SUSANA SOARES, a creative interpretation of scientific research
Susana Soares —Portuguese-born, English-based artist— employs design to promote and provoke critical thinking about the implications and ethical consequences of scientific research in our lives. Soares uses design as a…