#sissel tolaas

[mentaltimetraveller]

Sissel Tolaas, RE_________, 2022. 

Installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.

#Sissel Tolaas

[spit8]

“22 - Molecular Communication” Sissel Tolaas (2019)

#every flask was a different smell #its a research work on different smells of berlin #u could go there and sniff #she has created 52 smell profiles of different cities and landscapes #<- info from press release #sissel tolaas #sense of smell #art #exhibition #object #molecular communication #sculpture #flasks

[lizpurr]

Sissel Tolaas

#Sissel Tolaas #political art #art #contemporary art #charts and graphs

[supessy]

There is no sign forbidding people to play on the grass

"There is no sign forbidding people to play on the grass" - a quote from British writer, Deborah Levy's, memoirs entitled Real Estate. I really like it because I think that means people should be given the opportunity to try out things and learn. The grass might be neat and pristine, but it's there for people to put their bare feet and play on.

Aren't there conversations nowadays that make you feel like they are forbidding you to play on the grass? I've heard a lot of talk about AI and how people fear it because they think it's here to replace us. In the non-fiction sphere, we have ChatGPT taking the world by storm. In the fiction realm, we have the Thunderhead in the addictive Scythe series.

But why must there be a sign forbidding us to play on the grass? AI is the grass; we can still play on it. Ladies and gentlemen, let us not retreat. Intimidation will not work here. Let us keep an open mind about this. What if AI is not here to replace our thinking but to enhance our thinking so we can think even more creatively, ethically and authentically? 

Speaking about the unknown, I want to share this quote by Norwegian artist, Sissel Tolaas: "Discovery is what you do when you do not know what you are doing." I guess we are discovering AI and exercising agency in a discovery-Sissel-Tolaas-style way. You don't know what you're gonna find and/or end up with; you gotta keep an open mind. 

Still on the process of discovery/creativity, a friend shared this about Lunch Poems by American poet, Frank O'Hara, recently when I asked her about "sardines and oranges": "Basically, the poem is about creativity starting with one thing and then getting something completely [different]. So the artist started with sardines and it wasn't in the final painting and the writer started with oranges and his poem didn't end that way."

Ending on the note of existential dread (haha, don't ask me how - I don't know), how's all that for the search for identity? I will sign off with a quote by Billboard on LDR's (Lana Del Ray's) lead single for the album of the same name, "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd": "...expertly navigating between resignation and yearning, accepting fate and likewise thrashing against it." May we learn to be expert navigators. Meanwhile, relax - take off your shoes, play on the grass, enjoy the ride.

#writing #journal #discovery #AI

[redol3nt]

interesting interactive olfactory kit

[k00294094]

Sissel Tolaas: The Alphabet of the nose

One of the main things that I have observed from the many tropic, playful and some unheard of vape flavours, is the distinct smell that lures thousands of young people toward these toxic, harmful objects.

Getting a sweet, unnatural whiff of watermelon or cherry on the streets nowadays has become the new norm amongst the youth worldwide. And so, with the inspiration of sweet & sour smelling vapes, I wanted to do some in-depth research on the Art of Smell and Odor.

Olfactory Art, also referred to as scent art, is a form of contemporary art that uses scents or odors as the primary medium to create immersive sensory experiences. . While the use and curation of fragrant materials dates back thousands of years, this genre has gained popularity in recent years due to the increasing awareness of the profound impact that scent can have on emotions, memories, and our perception of the world.

Sissel Tolaas, a Norweigan woman, with graduate degree in chemsistry, art and language, has become the worlds leading expert in smell. The thousands of smell samples that are archived in her lab are aimed at exploring and uncovering the world’s odorous realities, an unflinching collection that includes sweat, toys, rotting bananas and dog poop!

"We breathe in 24,000 times a day, and every breath inhales molecules, even when we sleep. It all goes into the brain and the subconscious and we use maximum twenty percent of all that information. The brain is one of the oldest senses and by far the strongest."

Tolaas’ exhibitions have not been without controversy. In a show at the Foundation Cartier in Paris, she simulated the smell of the city by capturing the aroma of ashtrays and slaughterhouses. On the other hand, sweat collected from David Beckam's adidas sneakers was mixed with raw milk and served as cheese to a small audience at the London Olympics, who found no fault with the product until its backstory was revealed!

"Smell is so much about life and living. If we can train humanity to go beyond the usual parameters of smell, to tolerate them more, we can change society. Bad smells don’t have to be bad, just different, if we try to understand them intellectually."

[cnwnoticias]

Quem é a pesquisadora que cria cheiros para as lojas e os desfiles da Balenciaga

Durante dois anos, uma pesquisadora coletou e catalogou os cheiros de itens pessoais e do arquivo de Cristóbal Balenciaga, o fundador da grife francesa que leva seu sobrenome. Ela também extraiu aromas das paredes do ateliê de costura da marca, em Paris. O trabalho de Sissel Tolaas resultou em 2.000 moléculas olfativas, a partir das quais ela criou uma vela comercializada junto à coleção de…

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[distinktionsfetzen]

Check out Sissel Tolaas, SmellScape Tokyo display, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2013), From Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

[isillaure]

Resurrecting the Sublime, 2019.

Daisy Ginsberg and Sissel Tolaas

Resurrecting the smell of extinct flowers so that humans may again experience something we destroyed is awesome and perhaps terrifying; it evokes the "sublime". But this is not de-extinction. Instead, biotechnology, smell, and digitally reconstructed landscapes reveal the complex interplay of species and places that no longer exist. RESURRECTING THE SUBLIME asks us to contemplate our actions, and potentially change them for the future. This vitrine contains the smell of the lost Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock, (Maui hau kuahiwi in Hawaiian), once indigenous to ancient lava fields on the southern slopes of Mount Haleakalā, Maui, Hawaii, before its forest habitat was decimated by colonial cattle ranching; the final tree was found dying in 1912.  Fragments of each flower's smell are diffused in the vitrine: there is no "exact" smell. The lost landscape is reduced to its geology and the flower's smell: the human connects the two and becomes the specimen on view. In front, our digital reconstruction of the extinct Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock shows the flower on the volcanic slopes, around the time of its extinction. Watch the 3 flower films at https://vimeo.com/daisyginsberg

#Sissel Tolaas #Daisy Ginsberg #Olfatory art #extinction #synthetic biology

[island6artscenter]

"Static Noise And Cigarette Smoke" (静电声和香烟雾)

Don’t you miss it? All those wonderful smells and sounds that came out of Shanghai’s taxis… A scent enters the nose and jumps up the olfactory nerves like a trapeze artist, to a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb. The olfactory bulb presses against the amygdala and hippocampus, the emotional centers of the brain. Have you ever had a smell take you back to grandma’s kitchen? Artists like Sissel Tolaas are interested in the “aesthetics of smell”, or the idea that like sight and sound, smell can be beautiful. Think of taking a Shanghai taxi in the good-old days. The stoic driver had a sly-but-not-clever, devil-may-care demeanor. He was bored, but faithful to his car. He asked if you wanted a cigarette, “stick to Lesser Panda cigarettes, they’re much healthier”. The radio was tuned almost perfectly to Love Song Radio FM 103.7 and the air was stale but not quite enough to complain. Pure bliss. Those conversations were the most honest you could have in Shanghai, as if they were on another planet from your 9-5. The old guys were right: you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Artwork page: https://island6.org/staticnoiseandcigarettesmoke

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#designandvisualarts #artsandentertainment #videoart #paintinganddecorating #shanghaiscene #artdecor #mixmediaart #digitalart #contemporaryart #artcollective #m50 #smoking #ride #renovation #shanghaistreet #galleryart #uniqueart #Sissel Tolaas #aesthetics of smell #taxi

[mentaltimetraveller]

Sissel Tolaas, AirREborn | BelowAbove, 1994–2021

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[in-imitable-blog]

The Smell Memory Kit by Sissel Tolaas

The Smell Memory Kit by Sissel Tolaas

This is not new, but I always wanted to report about it… now I finally find time for it!

The smell scientist Sissel Tolaas has spent seven years collecting 7,000 scents. Now, her work is helping people make memories with the smell memory kit.

How does it work?

From the smell of your mother’s cooking to the perfume worn by your high school sweetheart, smells can instantly transport us to a time…

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#blog #concept store #fragrance #Franziska Josteit #In-Imitable #kit #marketing #memories #perfume #scent #Sissel Tolaas #Smell Memory Kit #Supersense #Vienna

[its-bodyself]

https://www.citylab.com/life/2015/11/wake-up-and-smell-your-city/413908/

Sissel Tolaas

Olores de la ciudad

No hay “buenos” o “malos” olores.

Exposición sobre olores del miedo 

#sissel tolaas #smell #odor #city #design #art #chemistry

[god-infected]

#i'm obssessed

[philamuseum]

In "Resurrecting the Sublime,: a designer, a scent designer, and a synthetic biologist pooled their expertise to reconstitute the smell of flowers made extinct through human impact on their ecosystems. Learn how they did this and smell for yourself in "Designs for Different Futures." 

"Resurrecting the Sublime," 2019, by Christina Agapakis, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, and Sissel Tolaas (Courtesy of the artists) Boulders kindly provided by Vetter Stone

#Resurrecting the Sublime #designs for different futures #art #art museum #philadelphia art museum #philadelphia museum of art #philadelphia #philamuseum #philly #exhibition

[fishdavidson]

Dream Journal 2019-11-22: Now With Smell-O-Vision!

First off: physiology fun fact time! Humans generally only perceive smell while awake or during the earliest part of the transition to sleep. After that point, your brain is effectively dead to olfactory stimuli. Your nose won’t wake you up in the event of a fire, and in my personal experience, smell is the least prevalent senses in dreams.

My dear friend @unichrome has called me on the phone for a chat. For once, I’m not using a cell phone to conduct this call. I’m using an old 1970s rotary phone in an avocado green plastic shell, and it’s got a really long cord so I can walk as far as one room away from the phone’s cradle. THE WONDERS OF TECHNOLOGY!

On the other end of the line, I hear my friend rummaging around in her kitchen. And then I smell something that smells like almonds. But I don’t have anything that smells like that in my immediate vicinity.

The smell is wafting out of the phone!

“Did you just open something that smells like almonds?” I ask, knowing full well what the answer is. Yes, she did just open a bottle of almond extract to put in a pie she was making.

“Fun fact!” I holler into the phone’s receiver. “Almonds smell that way because of cyanide and too much cyanide can kill you!”

My friend is silent for a moment. “Okay... Thanks, I guess,” she says.

I don’t think that’s how smells work, brain, but okay. But it was sort of cool to be able to be able to smell something far away through the wonders of old technology.

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Header image is of Sissel Tolaas.

#dream journal #dreams #smell #almond #cyanide #friend #phone #fishdavidson #unichrome