11.1.12

NEWSLETTER 2012.01.10.










NEWSLETTER 2012.01.10.







Dear Friends,
Wishing you a happy, healthy, and inspiring year for you!   
Here I would like to update you myself of the period fall 2010 -  2011.


みなさま
昨年は大変お世話になりました。今年も、どうぞよろしくお願い致します。幸せで、健康で、インスピレーションに満ちた一年を願っています。
最近ずっとアドレス帳の整理・統合に追われていたため、newsletter もめっきりご無沙汰してしまいました。ここにまとめて2010年秋〜2011年のご報告をいたします。





"SMELL LISTENING" workshop (Nov. 2010)

"[香]りを[聞]く" ワークショップ (2010.11.)










photos: Lucia Guglielmetti
A WORKSHOP INSPIRED BY THE JAPANESE TRADITIONAL FORM OF ARTS, KOHDO
Smell as if you listen!
Kõdõ, one of the three classical Japanese arts as tea ceremony, is a gathering of appreciating incense and sharing emotions and imaginations with the people living in different time and space. A Japanese olfactory artist Maki Ueda holds her original and artistic Kõdõ ceremony.
For more information:






匂いを「聴く」かのように、嗅いでみましょう。茶道と並んで日本の3大伝統芸道のひとつといわれる香道。香りによって、時と空間を超えて心情やイマジネーションを共有するための集いです。そこにインスパイアされ、言葉や文化が違う背景の人たちともこのような共感を覚えたいと、SMELL LISTENING WORKSHOPを設けました。
組香: Looking for Truffles (トリュフを探しに)
伽羅 試無 本一   Truffle  トリュフ
羅国 試一 本一   White mushroom マッシュルーム
真南蛮 試一 本一  Porcini ポルチニ
真那賀 試一 本一  Poisonous red mushroom 赤い毒キノコ
佐曽羅 試一 本一  Shiitake 椎茸
寸聞多羅 試一 本一 Magic mushroomマジック・マッシュルーム

詳しくはこちらへ:







Release of "Open Sauces Book" (Nov. 2010)

"Open Sauces Book" の出版 (2010.11.)







Open Sauces is the dinner held at FoAM, Brussels in 2010, whose cooncept was subjected on molecular cooking to logistics, sustainability to the social aspect of food.
http://fo.am/open_sauces
  • includes full recipe of Edible Perfume Workshop
  •  includes full recipe of "Pea and Mint Soup - solid, liquid, gaseous -
  •  for anyone who is interested in molecular gastronomy, food art, scentology, and cooking with the focus on aroma
From the introduction... 
This book is designed as a collection of the “toasts” and their accompanying recipes from the Open Sauces dinner. It is a scrapbook – a “common-place book” in the parlance of earlier centuries – and a book of commons. Commons, a term denoting shared public resources, can be traced back to the sharing of provisions, of rationing limited amounts of foodstuffs to feed a whole community. Similarly, Open Sauces offers bite-sized morsels of diverse aspects of contemporary food culture – whether curious information, case studies, or specific techniques – to feed a diverse group of readers.
Open Sauces Book
ISBN 978-90-810733-0-1
edited and published by: FoAM
download the digital version: http://opensauces.cc/open.sauces.pdf


私が参加するアーティスト・グループFoAMによるユニークなディナー・イベント Open Sauces をフルカバーした本が2010年秋に出版されました。モレキュラー・クッキングから流通、サステイナビリティから食料問題まで、あらゆる題材をそのコンセプトとしたユニークなディナーです。
http://fo.am/open_sauces

Open Sauces Book
ISBN 978-90-810733-0-1
編集+出版:FoAM
価格:1冊10ユーロ

 手軽なところで、デジタル版がこちらからもダウンロードできます  http://opensauces.cc/open.sauces.pdf


  • ディナー・コースのフル・レシピつきです。
  • Edible Perfume Workshop の秘伝レシピを英文でフル掲載しています。
  • 「グリーンピースとミントのスープ 〜固形状、液状、気体状〜」のレシピもフル掲載です。
  • モレキュラー・ガストロノミー、フード・アート、匂いを意識的に使った調理などに興味のある方に。




Curating the
"Palm Top Theater Exhibition" as a part of International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011 (Jan. 2011)
ロッテルダム国際映画祭にて、Palm Top Theater 展 をキュレーション (2011.01.)




Palm Top Theater PR video



Palm Top Theater Exhibition


I happen to curate a media art exhibition, in the context of the IFFR x V2_.  How come that?  This thing was simply interesting!
Enjoying 3D in your hand palm is something very special, and such fascination cannot be triggered by photographs: you just have to come and see it.  So as the olfactory works.  This exhibition is still on the global tour (organized by V2) so I hope you get a chance to see it.
collaboration with: V2_, DIRECTIONS, Jitsuro Mase


みなさんちょっと意外に思われるかもしれませんが、この私が、あるメディア・アートの展覧会をキュレーションしました。しかもロッテルダム国際映画祭という大きな舞台で。素直に「面白い!」と思ったものに食らいついたら、そんなことになってました。そういえばむかしはもっとメディア・アートっぽいことをしていたので、昔の仲間とふたたび一緒に仕事して、プチ同窓会みたいでしたね。ふだんは作家という立場ですが、キュレータという、またちょっと違う立場に立ち、得たものも多かったです。
Palm Top Theater を直訳すると 「手のひらの中の劇場」。iPhoneやiPadなどのモバイル機器で、3D映像を楽しむ、という趣旨の展覧会です。裸眼で3Dを見る感覚は、匂い同様、写真に映せない。だからこそ感動があります。大好評で、現在世界ツアー中ですので、機会があればぜひ足を運んでください。
collaboration with: V2_, DIRECTIONS, 間瀬実郎



Palm Top Theater will come to the market

Palm Top Theater 製品化決定




The exhibition was well received and we got a lot of inquiries. We are working on bringing this product to the market. Will be released in early spring. Stay informed on the facebook "Palm Top Theater" fan page.
上記展覧会が好評で、「製品が欲しい」という注文が世界中から多数殺到したため、製品化プロジェクトが発動しました。今春には製品として発売できる見込みになりました。今、ガンバってます。お楽しみに。facebook に、Palm Top Theater ファンページを作りました。



"OLFACTOSCAPE" exhibited in Lucena, Spain at the Sensxperiment festival (Nov. 2011)

スペインにて、"OLFACTOSCAPE" の展示 (2011.11.) 






Olfactoscape is a 3m diameter space created with a curtain. The walls are "painted" with smells.OLFACTOSCAPE is a word that I made up, consisting of OLFACTO (= olfactory) and SCAPE (= scenery). Let's observe an olfactory landscape with our nose, like a dog. Close your eyes, walk and sniff.Some scents come closer to you, while others fade away. Is there any scent that attracts you, or that makes you want to approach? This is a research project of searching for the boundaries and possibilities of our sense of smell.
Japanese people have a unique sense for the scents in nature. They appreciate the scents of the season as if viewing the landscape. They feel tipsy for the sweet scents under the cherry blossoms in the early spring night, and they feel the autumn for the scents of osmanthus. OLFACTOSCAPE is meant for experiencing such olfactory attitude. The selection of the scents illustrates this Japanese sensitivity to nature.
This work was initially developed with the support of INFRAMINCE, Inc (www.inframince.jp) and PANTALOON (www.pantaloon.jp).

olfacto = 嗅覚の
scape =
風景、シーン
OLFACTOSCAPE(オルファクトスケープ)は、「OLFACTO = 嗅覚の」と「SCAPE = シーン・風景」を組み合わせた造語。
夜桜の仄かに甘い香りの下で酔い、金木犀の香りに秋を感じる。このように、匂いをまるで風景を眺めるかのように嗅ぎ、賞賛する、そんな類いまれな感性を、わたしたち日本人は持っている。
では、そんな匂いの風景を鼻で見てみよう。直径3mの、円筒形のこの空間の中に立ち、目を閉じ、犬のように鼻で匂いをサーチしてみよう。近づく匂いもあれば、遠ざかる匂いもあるだろう。それらが重なり合わさってまた別な匂いになるかもしれない。ついつい引き寄せられてしまうような、魅惑的な匂いはあるだろうか。これは、私たちの嗅覚の限界と可能性を探るための、リサーチ・プロジェクトでもある。
supported by INFRAMINCE, Inc (www.inframince.jp) and PANTALOON (www.pantaloon.jp).
 



Release of the skin care product "tilde_" from inframince, inc.

inframince, inc. より、化粧品 "tilde_" の発売




Exceptionally I've developed an aroma for this cosmetic product, simply because their concept was unique: if skin is to be a device of the haptic sense, why not skin care product to be a medium?


From the product note:
An olfactory artist Maki Ueda developed for the fragrance of [tilde_] with the image of "skin tone". It is not too sweet, somewhat dear, and transparent.
In the old Japanese language, there was no clear division in expressions for the color and the smell. For example the word "niou (fragrant)" meant not only smelling nice, but also meant that the color of "beni" looks vibrant. (The color is in between red, pink and orange). There is a perfect example in the oldest poem book "Manyoshu" edited more than 1000 years ago. The poem is about the beauty of a woman who is standing under a peach tree. The pink color of the blossoms is reflected on the chin of the woman. He says that the skin color of her chin is "niou (fragrant)".
Such unique Japanese sensitivity, somewhat synesthetic, became the starting point for the "skin tone scent".
5 types of lotions (each 2520 JPY)
5 types of milk (each 2835 JPY)
each 50g
http://tilde.inframince.jp/

「朝と夜、昨日の出来事、明日の予定、今いる場所や今の気分。自身を とりまく環境や状況は、日々刻々と変化します。そんな環境や状況にさらされている身体と外界の境界である“肌”。 “肌”は触覚というひとつの感覚器官として、時には視覚や聴覚以上に、ものごとの微差を感じています。」
「肌」「触覚」を感覚器官と認識し、ある種の「媒体(メディウム)」として開発された基礎化粧品 "tilide_"。この希有なコンセプトの化粧品の香りをクリエーションしました。
香りのインスピレーションとしたのは、万葉集の大伴家持の歌です。
“春の苑 紅にほふ桃の花 下照る道に出で立つ少女(をとめ)” [意味:春の苑は桃の花で紅に輝いている。その下に立つ少女も輝いて見える。]
当時の日本人の共感覚にアプローチし、「紅色を肌にのせる」「輝きを肌にのせる」そんなイメージの香りを現しました。
water (化粧水)5タイプ (2520円)
milk (乳液)5タイプ (2835円) 50g
http://tilde.inframince.jp/


ちなみにこの会社 inframince は、日常感覚に意識的に焦点を当てた、洗練されたプロダクトを開発していらっしゃいます。会社名となった "inframince" は、「極・極薄の」という意味の、デュシャンによる造語です。是非いちどサイトをのぞいてみてください。この化粧品も、私自身ずっと愛用しています。http://inframince.jp/







Now in progress: "Find the Scent of Tulips (or Find Confusion...)" at Amsterdam Tulip Museum

現在進行中:"チューリップを探せ" @ アムステルダム・チューリップ・ミュージアム 


Put your head in these tulips. You will notice they smell of various bulbous flowers: Tulip, Hyacinth and Narcissus (Daffodil). But which one carries the actual scent of tulips?
Permanent installation at Amsterdam Tulip Museum
Concept : Maki Ueda
Special thanks to : Omega Ingredients (www.omegaingredients.com)
Realization by : NEZU AYMO ARCHITECTS (www.nezuaymo.com)


これらのチューリップを頭にかぶると、チューリップ、ヒヤシンス、黄水仙の香りがします。どれがチューリップの香りでしょうか?
アムステルダム街中にある、Tulip Museum の改装に伴い、インスタレーションを製作中、ほぼ完成。パーマネント・コレクションです。
コンセプト: Maki Ueda
協力:Omega Ingredients (www.omegaingredients.co.uk)
制作:NEZU AYMO ARCHITECTS (www.nezuaymo.com)







Now in progress:  “Pearl” Exhibition at De Lakenhal Stedelijk Museum Leiden (The Netherlands) in Autum 2012

現在進行中:オランダ・ライデン市立美術館にて、「真珠」をテーマとした展覧会に向けて制作準備中






Now in progress: Smell Festival in Bologna (Italy) in May 2012 

現在進行中:5月にはイタリア・ボローニャで行われる smell festival に参加予定










In the year 2011 I was often on retreat in Japan to recover my sense of smell damaged by allergy (hay fever that is site-specific to European climate).  Since then I'm based in Japan, flying occasionaly to Holland.  That helped my condition recovering.  I also have quite a few projects coming up in Singapore - see you somewehre, sometime!
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 2011年を総括すると、ちょっと休業気味の、鋭気を養う年でした。長年患っている土地性のアレルギー(ヨーロッパでのみ発症する牧草花粉症)によって、鼻も効かなくなってしまったため、夏はゆっくりと石垣島で療養し、その後は基本的に日本にいます。おかげさまで嗅覚は戻りました! 今後も基本は日本を拠点に、ときどきオランダ、シンガポールなど、ちょっとノマド的な生活になる予定ですが、これまで距離が遮っていた日本での展示やプロジェクトなども可能になりました。気軽にお声をかけてください。
 匂いだけでなく、食やフレーバーに関するプロジェクトが世界のいたるところで多数進行しています。特にシンガポールにおいては、様々なプロジェクトが展開していく予定です。ご縁もあり、シンガポール法人も立ち上げ、拠点ができました。シンガポールは今や、アジアのNY。今後も更に、国、人種、文化、言葉、既成概念などの枠を超え、共感できるものを作り続けていきたいと思います。


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1.11.11

One of my work was selected for the Rotterdam's Art Calendar 2012

One of my work was selected for the Rotterdam's Art Calendar 2012.  They chose  365 diverse works from artists, designers, and architects based in Rotterdam.  Will be published on the 11th of Nov!



Uitnodiging lancering Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2012



Op 11-11-11 is het zo ver: de Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2012 wordt gepresenteerd, gelanceerd en gevierd in LP2. U bent van harte welkom om bij dit moment aanwezig te zijn vanaf 17.00 uur.

De Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender bevat 366 (schrikkeljaar!) werken van aanstormende en gevestigde Rotterdamse kunstenaars, fotografen, architecten, illustratoren en (mode)vormgevers. Daarmee laat de kalender de diversiteit en kracht zien van het kunstenveld in Rotterdam!

Tijdens deze lancering willen we met u allen hoopvol vooruitblikken op 2012. Wat gaan we doen in 2012? Het zijn hele spannende zo niet barre tijden voor de kunsten. We willen daarom deze vrijdagmiddag/avond aangrijpen om het aangename en het nuttige te combineren middels een hele grote idee-uitwisseling. Dit alles geflankeerd met een eenvoudige doch voedzame maaltijd en drank voor iedereen. Natuurlijk geven ook diverse types acte de présence, maar daarover later meer!

Wij hopen dat tout Rotterdam zijn of haar gezicht zal laten zien en van zich zal laten horen. Ook gaan wij er vanuit dat al de creatoren van deze kalender hun werk even laten rusten om samen te proosten op de schoonheid van Rotterdam en de Kunsten. Voor al die andere minder creatieven de kans om de mensen achter de werken in de kalender live te aanschouwen.

Het belooft deze 11-11-11 feestelijk te worden: hoera de Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender is dan een feit!

Kom langs en neem uw vrienden en/of familie mee zodat het echt gezellig wordt. Vanzelfsprekend is de kalender ook te koop op deze avond (27,50 euro).
Neem contant geld mee! (geen pin)

Vanaf 17.00 uur in LP2, Wilhelminakade 326 te Rotterdam

Hartelijke groet namens al diegenen die zich hebben ingespannen om de kalender te realiseren,

Michiel Houdijk, Rineke Kraaij en Gérard Steenbergen

michiel@trichis.nl / rineke@kantoorkraaij.nl / steenbergen@lp2.nl

Deze presentatie is mede mogelijk gemaakt door

22.10.11

OLFACTOSCAPE @ Lucena (Cordoba), Spain - photos











It was nicely opened on the 21st of October, 2011. I arrived in the middle of opening. I've heard that the person who made an opening speech, a respected artist who resides locally, was very interested in this work, because he himself has made paintings with orange smell. All the other works were nice and I knew almost all the artists too. The party became a nice reunion :-)

INTERVENTIONS | Lucena-Córdoba


INTERVENTIONS | Lucena-Córdoba
From 4th to November 12th, 2011
ILIOS (GR)Live Performace for specific locationPalacio de los Condes de Santa Ana, BasementThursday November 4th - 22:00
http://www.siteilios.gr/

Bruce McClure - LIVE  (US)
Audiovisual performance
Teatro Palacio Erisana, Basement
November 5th - 20:30

Binaural Location Performance - Dallas Simpson (UK)Live Performance for specific locationIglesia de San Juan de DiosNovember 10th 19:00
http://www.dallassimpson.com/
Immersive live concert in darkness - Francisco López (ES)Multichannel acousmatic concertIglesia de San Juan de DiosNovember 11th - 21:00
http://www.franciscolopez.net/
Massages Sonores - Pascal Battus (FR)Live Performance for one person
Palacio de los condes de Santa Ana
November 10th from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 10:30 to 23:00, November 11th from 12:00 to 14:00 and from 18:00 to 20:00
http://pbattus.free.fr/
Archisonic - Mark Bain (US/NL)Live Performance for specific locationMercado Municipal de AbastosNovember 12th - 20:30
http://www.simulux.com/ 
Teatro Palacio Erisana - Plaza Nueva nº1. Lucena
Iglesia de San Juan de Dios - La Calzada nº 1. Lucena
Mercado Municipal de Abastos - Plaza Alta y Baja nº 1. Lucena




  
WORKSHOPS | Lucena


3rd and November 4th, 2011

Palacio de los Condes de Santa Ana. Lucena



Somos vibración. Propiedades y uso del sonido, tácticas de excitación del espacio 
(Weare vibration. Properties and use of sound) - ILIOS (GR)




Sensxperiment 2011: Sensorial immersion 
mediateletipos.net / Sensxperiment



Visit mediateletipos.net/sensxperiment to see more specific english content  withreferences to some of the artists participating in 2011 . HC Gilge, ILIOS and Mark Bain, Telcosysitems, Maki Ueda, Dallas Simpson, Bruce McClure, the Dreamachineos other aspects of the exhibition like primitism, live cinema o relations withinteraction. 


Consultation on our details, times and locations or follow us on facebook andtwitter.

Weekend Proms

Palacios 32, 14900 Lucena (Córdoba).Spain

media@sensxperiment.es

www.sensxperiment.es

www.mediateletipos.net/sensxperiment

www.mase.es

www.mediateletipos-retrospecta.net

15.10.11

exhibiting OLFACTOSPACE in Lucena, Cordoba Spain




SENSXPERIMENT
http://www.sensxperiment.es/


.20.10. - 13.11.2011
at Lucena, Cordoba Spain



20th October – 12th November 2011. Lucena-Córdoba
After ten years of activity Sensxperiment International Creation Meeting will be organized in a triennial basis, so most activities of the current eleventh edition will take place in October and November 2011, mainly in Lucena and Cordoba, Spain.
The topic chosen for this edition is ‘Sensory Immersion’.
We do not have to talk only about the history of arts and entertainment, this phenomenon has always been integrated in the quotidian experience and it appears also in most popular rituals, from the ancient indigenous cultures to all kinds of Western celebrations, in a rave or a metal performance.
Today there are a lot of artistic and entertainment pieces that promote themselves using extensively the term ‘immersion’. In many cases this term underlines their multisensoriality, hyper-reality or a somewhat intimate and subjective character, in other occasions it is maybe just a way to stress their magnificent technologies.
Anyway, let´s talk about what it is interesting for us and what we will deal with in this project. Our aim is to examine this elusive concept departing from a series of artistic works based mostly in the use of audiovisual media and with a special emphasis in topics related to the exploration of the surrounding, intimate and physical qualities of sound. The aim is to show recent works, but also relevant pieces from the past, all of them considered interesting mostly because (but not exclusively) of their value as perceptive experiences. We also would like to contextualize these kinds of work, examining them from a critical point of view. Several interweaved lines of investigation will be drawn, dealing with topics such as expanded and live cinema, the relationships between sound and space, the soundwalk, deep listening or the soundscape. In short, we are more interested in perception and the sensory than in the spectacular or the strictly technological issues behind many works catalogued as immersive.
The basic structure of this project ia a dynamic investigation process started in 2009 led by some of the editors of mediateletipos.net and it take form in a series of regular online publications, as an accompaniment for the physical events that will take place in this year (and some that taken place in the last year 2010). All the posts related to this project are published within the usual flow of the site, but they are grouped also in a special section.

13.10.11

exhibition at DESIGNTIDE @ Tokyo Midtown


Cosmetics that I was involved as a perfumer will be released soon, and in prior to that they'll be exhibited in Tokyo at the DESIGNTIDE exhibition.

DESIGNTIDE
2011.10.29 - 2011.11.03
@TOKYO MIDTOWN HALL


inframince.inc | t i l d e _
Their project "skin and environment / touch: design from feeling" proposes the world be perceived through touching. The project started with the thought that new ways of thinking and productive lifestyle can be acquired by spending everyday life with different perspectives. Directed by PANTALOON, artist Maki Ueda blended new perfume for the skincare product line "t i l d e _". They give people the fragments of thoughts perceived through "touching".


inframince.inc
With the key concept “skin as the contact point with one’s surrounding environment”, inframince.inc proposes skin care products that make people more confident in everyday life. “Inframince” is a term coined by Marcel Duchamps.


perfume _ tilde_

Maki Ueda 
http://www.ueda.nl/

An olfactory artist Maki Ueda developed for the fragrance of [tilde_] with the image of "skin tone".  It is not too sweet, somewhat dear, and transparent.

In the old Japanese language, there was no clear division in expressions for the color and the smell.  For example the word "niou (fragrant)" meant not only smelling nice, but also meant that the color of "beni" looks vibrant. (The "beni" color looks like mixture of red, pink and orange). There is a perfect example in the oldest poem book "Manyoshu" edited more than 1000 years ago.  The poem is about the beauty of a woman who is standing under a peach tree.  The pink color of the blossoms is reflected on the chin of the woman.  He says that the skin color of her chin is "niou (fragrant)".

Such unique Japanese sensitivity, somewhat synesthetic, became the starting point for the "skin tone scent".










13.6.11

an article about me in the magazine bouillon (a magazine for the Dutch top chefs)


Het 32e boekje in de reeks: zomer 2011
(er was ooit een 0-nummer. Vandaar dat dit nummer 31 toch het 32e boekje is. Het blijft lastig!). Een aantal van deze uitgaven zijn niet meer los te koop, maar de hele serie van 32 boekjes is nog te koop in het Rotterdammertje.
Het zomernummer wordt rond 15 juni verzonden naar de abonnees. Ach... u bent nog steeds geen abonnee...nou, dat kan hier geregeld worden.