Transmediale Installation

 

By Sebastián Tedesco and Bruno Mesz

Scents: IFF

Year: 2019

Research Students:

Leonardo Potenza

Camilo Alvarez

 

In the installation, the public can choose between two vibro-tactile-aromatic abstract compositions, and experience the selected composition by leaning their backs on transducers that produce tactile sensations, accompanied by a scent provided by an operator. Scents are interpretations and / or olfactory translations of the concepts of “money” and “pollution”.

 

The work emerged as a continuation of scientific studies on correspondences between the senses (called “Transmodal Correspondences”) and sociological studies on current phenomena of mixtures between “major” and “minor” arts, between senses traditionally considered primary (vision and hearing) and secondary (touch, smell, taste).

 

We propose to make a point about the expressive power of works destined to senses that are traditionally considered as secondary and for which there are hardly any spatial and temporal arts, although their receptive capacity is of an exquisite diversity.

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

Participation in “In Kepler’s Garden – The Garden of Curiosity”. ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Art, Science and Technology. Linz, Austria, 2020. Access the virtual exhibition HERE.

 

Pinta Miami 2019 / Miami Art Week 2019.