Smeller

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The smeller in action at the Osmodrama 2016 Scent Art Festival

Smeller (since 2012 Smeller 2.0 ) is an installation by the Austrian artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf , which, as an instrument and medium, enables the composing and precise emission or performance of complex olfactory sequences, which are also synchronized with simultaneously reproduced sounds, films, spoken texts, dance or theater can.

history

The first mechanically controllable prototype of an olfactory organ was developed by Wolfgang Georgsdorf since 1990 and shown and operated for the first time under the name Smeller 1.0 in 1996 in the Upper Austrian State Museum . Georgsdorf thus realized a time-based art form he called Osmodrama , in order to enable research and performative practice of olfactory sequential performances. The instrument is used to stage, program, record and reproduce smells, smell chords and smell sequences.

The Smeller 2.0, which can be played or controlled via MIDI, was presented to the public for the first time in 2012 in the exhibition “Sensory intoxication” in the OK Center for Contemporary Art in the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter in Linz . Georgsdorf cooperated with the perfumer Geza Schön for the development of the individual odor components. A year later, the olfactory film “NO (I) SE 1” premiered at the same location as part of the Crossing Europe film festival .

In the same year Georgsdorf received the Austrian “Outstanding Artist Award for Interdisciplinarity” for the Smeller 2.0 project .

In 2016 Georgsdorf introduced Smeller 2.0 in the form of the nine-week event Osmodrama Berlin 2016 - Festival for Scent Art in Berlin. In 2017 Wolfgang Georgsdorf received the Art and Olfaction Award for Osmodrama in the category 'Experimental Work with Scent'.

construction

The smeller is a type of organ that consists of tubes and chambers. It is provided with hundreds of meters of odor-transporting polypropylene pipes and aluminum hoses, which emit precisely dosed odors into a continuously available air stream and thus avoid the overlapping of different scents. The smeller is operated in its current form of presentation Smeller 2.0 via computer and MIDI keyboard.

Neologisms

Georgsdorf has created the following terms in the field of olfactory art through this installation:

  • Osmodrama: narrative, time-based, olfactory art form
  • Synosmia, Synolfia: Longer compositions of smells; Designed, structured sequence of olfactory signals
  • Smellodies: Short sequences or cadences of olfactory signals that make up synosmia
  • Hauchmaul (or "Daisy"): The rosette-shaped mouth of the flow guide element of Smeller 2.0
  • Kinetosmia: changing and moving smell
  • Odience: The audience of an Osmodrama performance; "Snoopers" vs. Spectator; the olfactory counterpart to "audience" (derived from the words odor and audience )

Synosmia (synolfia) and olfactory film

The following works have so far been performed publicly with the Smeller 2.0:

Synosmies

  • "Hausfugen" (2012; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 65 min .; Soundscapes and Scentscapes)
  • "A Childhood" (2012; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 77 min .; Soundscapes and Scentscapes)
  • "Miniatures" (2012; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 55 min .; Soundscapes and Scentscapes)
  • "Stille Allee" (2012; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 12 min .; olfactory sequences)
  • "Five silent pieces" (2012; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 21 min .; olfactory sequences)
  • Autocomplete (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 54 min .; olfactory sequences)
  • Scenting Phill Niblocks Baobab (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 27 min .; olfactory sequences as "Scent-Drone" for Phill Nibblock's minimalist piece "Baobab" from 2013;)
  • Orchestral Whifftracks (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 54 min .; recorded live olfactory sequences for the live concert of the Berlin Improvisers Orchestra conducted by W. Georgsdorf)
  • Neon Lizard (2016; Stephen Crowe / Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 8 min .; collaboration; music composition by Stephen Crowe for violin and electronics; synchronous scent composition by Wolfgang Georgsdorf; soloist of the world premiere: Aisha Orazbayeva)
  • Find Warm Wind Farm (2016; Stephen Crowe / Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 18 min .; collaboration; music composition by Stephen Crowe for clarinet and french horn; synchronous scent composition by Wolfgang Georgsdorf; musicians of the world premiere: Tom Jackson and Samuel Stoll; olfactory sequences)
  • "Osmodrama Versetzt Stein" (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf / Nikola Madzirov; 30 min .; Live osmdodrama as olfactory prologues and epilogues by Wolfgang Georgsdorf on the smell organ Smeller 2.0 for reading several poems from Nikola Madzirov's children's novel "Geel Gras", read by the author)
  • "Osmodrama Elefantinas Moskauer Jahre" (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf / Julia Kissina; 30 min .; recorded live osmdodrama scene synchronized by Wolfgang Georgsdorf on the smell organ Smeller 2.0 for reading a chapter of Julia Kissina's novel "Elefantinas Moskauer Jahre", read by the author)
  • "Osmodrama Geel Gras" (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf / Simon van der Geest; 30 min .; recorded live osmdodrama, scene-synchronized by Wolfgang Georgsdorf on the smell organ Smeller 2.0 for reading several chapters of Simon van der Geest's children's novel "Geel Gras", read by the author )
  • "Scentscapes and Soundscapes 1" (2016; 60 min .; Carl Stone and Wolfgang Georgsdorf; live concert of audio compositions by Carl Stones and olfactory sequences by Wolfgang Georgsdorf at Smeller 2.0)
  • "Scentscapes and Soundscapes 2" (2016; 45 min .; Sam Auinger and Wolfgang Georgsdorf; live concert of audio compositions by Sam Auinger and olfactory sequences by Wolfgang Georgsdorf at Smeller 2.0)

Scent films

  • NO (I) SE 1 (2013; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; smell, sound, image; synchronized to the scene; 24 min.First native smell film for Smeller 2.0 as an experimental film for Expanded Cinema)
  • Edgar Reitz '“The Other Home” as Osmodrama (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 240 min .; Scene-synchronized olfactory sequences from Edgar Reitz's film epic from 2013)
  • Omer Fasts "Continuity" as Osmodrama (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 40 min .; Scene-synchronized odor sequences for Omer Fasts Documenta13-contribution "Continuity" from 2012)

literature

  • Klaus Lüber: The Beginning of a New Paradigm - Wolfgang Georgsdorf interviewed by Klaus Lüber , in ZAPACH: Scent - An Invisible Code, Copernicus Science Center, 2013/14, ISBN 978-83-919263-4-5 , pp. 118–125 .
  • Schmidt, Karlheinz: The olfactory factor of art. Karlheinz Schmidt on a neglected phenomenon , in: KUNSTZEITUNG., March 2014, p. 19.
  • Egger, Andreas: Art course for the senses. Sensory intoxication in the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter in Linz , in: kunst: art, July 2012, p. 3.
  • Fragrances at the push of a button in Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 24, 2014, p. 23 ff.
  • This is how the future smells in "Our senses are so clever" (cover story, p.20 - p. 30) in ZEIT WISSEN, 2016/2, (p. 28. - p.30).
  • Weihser, Rabea in ZEIT ONLINE: The madness machine
  • Pirich, Caroline in Süddeutsche Zeitung: The Drama Aroma .
  • Danicke, Sandra in ART Magazin: Art from the Off, September 2016, p. 17.
  • About smelling In: Gottfried Hattinger, OÖ Landesmuseum (Ed.): About the senses . Provincial Library, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85252-731-4 , p. 63.
  • Bartels, Gunda in Der Tagesspiegel on August 16, 2016: Hauch mal, Hauchmaul

Web links

Commons : Smeller  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uli Marchsteiner, Peter Assmann: Odor organ . In: Oberösterreichische_Landesmuseen (Hrsg.): Werk'Zeuge / Design des Elementaren . Provincial Library, 1996, ISBN 3-85252-119-X , pp. 141-143.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Hattinger: About smelling . In: Oberösterreichische_Landesmuseen (Hrsg.): About the senses . Provincial Library, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85252-731-4 , p. 63.
  3. ^ "Smeller" In: Wolfgang Georgsdorf: Fächer. Fishnet Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-901677-01-1 , pp. 50-51.
  4. ↑ Klaus Lüber in an interview with W. Georgsdorf for the Goethe Institute, September 2013
  5. ↑ Egger, Andreas: Art Parcour of the Senses. Sensory intoxication in the Upper Austrian Culture Quarter in Linz, in: kunst: art, July 2012, p. 3.
  6. ↑ culture-online :: Crossing ... In: www.kultur-online.net. Retrieved November 18, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Federal Chancellery Austria 2014 Recipient list, outstanding artist award
  8. ^ "Die Wahnsinnlichkeitsmaschine" in ZEIT Online on July 24, 2016
  9. ↑ "Das Drama Aroma" in Süddeutsche Zeitung on September 3, 2016
  10. ↑ "Hauch mal, Hauchmaul" in Der Tagesspiegel on August 16, 2016
  11. ↑ 2017 Winners and Finalists . In: The Art and Olfaction Awards . May 6, 2017 ( artandolfactionawards.org [accessed June 7, 2017]).
  12. ↑ German patent application DE102013010912A1