The catalogue "Olfactory Games" is ready to order

Finally the catalogue is ready to order: "Olfactory Games 2009-2018" by Maki Ueda | Blurb Books. It contains 45 works made by the students in my course on olfactory art. Curatorial text contributed by Caro Verbeek. Appreciating all the students participated in my class. (The book price is purely the printing cost - you can order one globally from the nearest Blurb distributor)

https://www.blurb.com/b/10373575-olfactory-games-2009-2018

Olfactory Games 2009-2018

By Maki Ueda

OLFACTORY GAMES became a finalist in Art and Olfaction Awards 2018 (Sadakichi Award)

I'm pleased to announce that my course Olfactory Games (Smell and Art) has become a finalist in the 5th Art and Olfaction Awards.

This time I didn't submit my own work but "a course". I never expected that it would make it, to be honest. I appreciate the judges that made a unique decision. Applause to my colleagues at ArtScience, and all the students who participated in the course! We never stop creating new games.  

Some of the students will give presentations at the pre event Experimental Scent Summit on 18-19 Apr 2018 in London.  Award ceremony (gala) is on the 21st of Apr.

photo: Lucia Guglielmetti

Olfactory Games 

Maki Ueda started her olfactory art course Smell and Art in 2009 at the ArtScience Interfaculty. In the course students learn a conceptual and abstract approach to the medium of smell. The use of smell goes beyond the representational use and focuses on its qualities and experience without a need for a narrative or context. The students are challenged to develop olfactory games using this approach. Furthermore, they learn chemical skills by extracting and composing smells to support their creations. The game format challenges our imagination: while we always have limited fragrance materials, we never stop thinking of new games. The Japanese traditional olfactory game Kodo is a good example of this.

Maki Ueda is an olfactory artist who explores olfaction with an abstract and conceptual approach. She was the World Technology Awards finalist in 2009 (category: art), and the Art and Olfaction Awards finalist in 2016 (Sadakichi Award). She is a guest teacher at ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands. Maki Ueda is currently based in Okinawa, Japan. www.ueda.nl

Course conception: Maki Ueda

Participating students: June Yu, Lauren Jetty Howells-Green, Kay Churcher, Sophia Bulgakova, Ana Oosting, Abel Fazekas, Ilia Lukovnikov, Vera Khvaleva, Sunna Svavarsdottir, Mischa Lind, Stefano Zucchini, Georgia Kosmatou, Koen de Groot, Tudor Ulrich, Anni Nops, ...and all the students participating in the past courses.

Course given at: ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague, The Netherlands

Course website: http://smellart.blogspot.com

Release from Art and Olfaction Awards:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 5, 2018

MILAN— We are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2018 Art and Olfaction Awards, which we made public in a special press event at Esxence, in Milan, on April 5, 2018. 

Awarded to just four perfumes, one experimental scent project and two special awards — the Aftel Award and the Contribution to Scent Culture — a year, The Art and Olfaction Awards are designed to raise public interest and awareness around new developments in independent perfumery. The Awards, established in 2014 by the Institute for Art and Olfaction, are given to outstanding creators in the categories of independent, artisan, and experimental perfume from across the globe, chosen for perfumes released in 2017. 

The fifth annual Art and Olfaction Awards events will take place in a public ceremony at The Tabernacle. Continuing the tradition of holding the awards in unique locations in different perfume capitals of the world, the Tabernacle is a Grade II-listed building in Powis Square, Notting Hill, west London, England, built in 1887 as a church and converted into an arts center in the 1970s.  

Each Art and Olfaction Award winner will receive The Golden Pear, which continues to cement its status as a prestigious achievement in the perfume world.

As with past years, our panel of esteemed judges includes luminaries from the perfume and art worlds. The members of the Art and Olfaction Awards 2018 jury include:  Andy Tauer (Switzerland), Antonio Gardoni (Italy), Christopher Gordon (USA), Grant Osborne (UK), Harald Lubner (Germany), Josh Meyer (USA), Sarah McCartney (UK), Andreas Wilhelm (Switzerland), Bibiana Prival (USA), Dana El Masri (Canada), Dawn Spencer Hurwitz (USA), Matthias Janke (Germany), Ulrike Knöll (Germany), Spyros Drosopoulos (Netherlands), Cristiano Canali (France/Italy), Denyse Beaulieu (France), Helder Suffenplan (Germany), Jeanne Doré (France), Katie Puckrik (England), Luca Turin (Greece), Mark Behnke (USA), Ashraf Osman (Switzerland), Caro Verbeek (The Netherlands), Darin Klein (USA), Sarah Baker (England), Simon Niedenthal (Sweden)

Zoe Crosher (USA), Frederic Jacques (USA), Hall Newbegin (USA), Mandy Aftel (USA)

The Art and Olfaction Awards was founded in 2012 as an independent awards mechanism designed to celebrate innovation and excellence in artisan and independent perfume, and experimentation in scent within arts practices. The Art and Olfaction Awards are a program of The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Los Angeles, CA.

The Art and Olfaction Awards could not exist without the generous support of our partners at Lucky Scent / Scent Bar, Pochpac, Perfumers Apprentice, Esxence, Barrister and Mann, Aftelier Perfumes, Nez – La Revue Olfactive, Basenotes, ÇaFleureBon, AutumnSeventy, Perfumed Plume Awards. 

The Institute for Art and Olfaction is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Los Angeles, CA. The Institute for Art and Olfaction advances public and artistic engagement with scent. We do this by initiating and supporting arts projects that utilize the medium of scent, by providing accessible and affordable education in our experimental laboratory as well as in partnership with institutions and community groups, and by celebrating excellence in independent and artisan perfumery through our yearly award mechanism, The Art and Olfaction Awards. Through these efforts, we extend the world of scent beyond its traditional boundaries of appreciation and use.

MORE INFORMATION:
http://artandolfactionawards.com/
http://artandolfaction.com/ 

For press inquiries please contact:

Maxwell Williams, Press and Communications Officer

maxwell@artandolfaction.com - 213-271-6145

Olfactory Games - final presentation

Smell and Art - an introduction to artistic use of the medium of smell -
http://smellart.blogspot.com

It was a course given by Maki Ueda (www.ueda.nl) at Interfaculty Art Science (www.interfaculty.nl), an interfaculty of Royal Academy of Arts (www.kabk.nl) and Royal Conservatory, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Smell and Art: introduction to olfactory art. A half is finished.

My dream is, to have my own atelier / workshop somewhere in a beautiful location in Japan, and give such workshops frequently for anyone from the world.

I've been receiving such requests before.  I felt always pity to say "Sorry, I don't have such occasions."

So this class is for me the basis for my future.

In the second half we're going to develop olfactory works.  Not just an artwork. It's going to be "olfactory game".

Smell and Art: introductory course to olfactory art practice

I'm giving a course "Smell and Art" at Art Science interfaculty (www.interfaculty.nl) during 3 weeks in October. The final assignment of the course is: develop an olfactory game.

the blog site of the course:
http://smellart.blogspot.nl/2013/10/day-1.html

workshop 'Smell and Art'

It's been two weeks since I've started the workshop / lecture at Art Science Faculty of Royal Academy of Art, The Netherlands. Our progress can be followed at this site:

Smell and Art　
http://smellart.blogspot.com

Students are working on mini-project "Olfactory Game". The final presentation is on the next Thursday. Please feel free to come and experience the works by the students.

2010.2.18. (Thu)
13:00-16:00
Royal Academy of Art
Prinsessegracht 4
2514 AN Den Haag
location: PB301 (the room of Art Science)

Take the stairs nearby the entrance up to the 2nd floor, and then to the left. There's a door at the end, and if you take the stairs up that's PB301.