at Google Zurich on Tue. May 29, 2018 @ 1:30 – 3PM Thought that florals are just sweet, feminine bouquets? Then come and smell how different and intriguing they can be. Powdery, smoky, refreshing or luscious. Oh, and oudy too. Ashraf Osman, founder-director of ScentArt.Net, .News & .Club, will give a talk about perfumery, featuring some of the most … Continue reading
I was recently at an impromptu high school reunion in Beirut, the first I’d ever gone to since we graduated 24 years ago. (I graduated at 16, so I’m not that old!) And I was dreading it. I was so dreading it, the only way I could make it was by treating myself to an … Continue reading
London is abuzz with scent art this week! SAN-AA‘s Klara Ravat, Miguel Matos, Eddie Bulliqi, Peter De Cupere, and Saskia Wilson-Brown are presenting at the Experimental Scent Summit. Here’s a whiff of Miguel Matos’ presentation, Poison Perfume and Other Adventures in Conceptualizing Scent. A blend of the most deadly materials. Poisons selected exclusively by their seductive … Continue reading
Ashraf Osman, founder-director of Scent Art Net, News & Club, will give a talk about perfumery at Google Zurich. Find out about perfume families, natural and synthetic ingredients and how to choose your perfume. You’ll have an opportunity to smell the best perfume from each of perfume families, including perfumes from Guerlain, Le Labo Fragrances, Tauer … Continue reading
So, no: we didn’t actually hack scent communication in one weekend. (Did you really think we would?) But we tried, and sometimes that’s what really matters. We gathered and talked and smelled, and then we talked some more, and ate and laughed a lot, and then smelled some more still (there was lots of cabbage… … Continue reading
January 19 – 21, 2018 Mediamatic, Amsterdam Produced by Caro Verbeek, Klara Ravat, and Saskia Wilson-Brown Presented by The Institute for Art and Olfaction and Mediamatic How do we describe scent? When we speak about scent, what language do we use? When we classify scents, what structures do we adopt? Can we do better? These … Continue reading
TAAT (“Theatre as Architecture, Architecture as Theatre”) is a collaborative practice led by Dutch theater-maker Gert-Jan Stam and Belgian architect Breg Horemans, operating within the disciplines of theater, architecture, art and design to develop an innovative and unifying idea of “architectural dramaturgy”. One such long-term artistic-research exploration is HALL33, a project-series initiated by TAAT to … Continue reading
NEZ, The Olfactory Magazine, continues its olfactory exploration, breaking down yet more confines, conventions and preconceptions around our sense of smell. Its fourth edition, on the theme of Art and Perfume, was launched in November at an event in London which included: a conversation on “Is perfume an art?” with Lyn Harris (perfumer), Clara Ursitti (artist), Thomas Dunckley (The Candy … Continue reading
The Style & Design department at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) invites you to a talk by Ashraf Osman on Tue. Nov. 7 at 5pm in room 5.K06 of the Toni-Areal building (Pfingstweidstrasse 96, CH-8005 Zürich). The talk will present a brief overview of scent in style and design, and then focus on two pioneering projects … Continue reading
The much-anticipated book from Routledge, DESIGNING WITH SMELL: Practices, Techniques And Challenges, is now available to order from Routledge and Amazon. Designing with Smell aims to inspire readers to actively consider smell in their work through the inclusion of case studies from around the world, highlighting the current use of smell in different cutting-edge design and … Continue reading
