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Smeller (technology)
Smeller (since 2012: Smeller 2.0) is an installation by the Berlin-based artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf, which as an instrument and medium enables the composing and precise broadcasting or performance of complex scent sequences. These can also be synchronized with simultaneously reproduced sounds, films, narrative texts, dance or theatre. History The first mechanically controllable prototype of a scent ‘organ’ (in the sense of a musical instrument) was invented by Wolfgang Georgsdorf in 1990 and demonstrated for the first time in the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. Georgsdorf thus realized a time-based art form he called Osmodrama in order to enable the exploration and performance of olfactory sequences and ‘chords’. The instrument is used for staging, programming, recording and playback. Smeller 2.0, which can be played or controlled by MIDI, was first presented to the public in 2012 in the exhibition ''Sinnesrausch'' at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in the OÖ Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Georgsdorf
Wolfgang Paul Georgsdorf (born 10 September 1959 in Linz, Austria) is an Austrian media artist, director, sculptor, musician, author, researcher, and inventor based in Berlin. He was founder and spokesman of Opal-so-nicht which resulted in a successful case against Gazprom and BASF in Dahme-Heideseen Nature Park, Brandenburg, Germany. Education Georgsdorf was educated at the University of Art and Design Linz from 1977 until 1983. There, he was one of the founding members of the Stadtwerkstatt Linz and of the experimental music project ''Die Post''. Career Olfaction He started to explore olfactory art in the 1980s. One of his early installations was shown at the Ars Electronica Festival in 1986. In 1996 he built the prototype of a mechanically-controlled scent organ, the ''Smeller 1.0''. In the exhibition ''Werk'Zeuge'' at the OÖ Landesmuseum (State Museum of Upper Austria) he presented ''Smeller 1.0'' which was able to play hundreds of scents for the audience – an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
