Other Smelly Things:" DOIY smell map"," Quaistionnaire"," Smell IT"

SmellBytes ,1998

http://smellbytes.banff.org
by Jenny Marketou

SmellBytes Is a fictional narrative presented in the form of an installation and a website. As the title suggests, SmellBytes is not a futuristic gastronomic experience but a digital smell less project which has been preceded by a long period of other projects and research with actual smells which include videos, Do it Yourself Smell Maps, and performances in the Situationist mode and directly related to the Proustian smell and the use of odor to explore the connections between collective memory, mapping, the imaginary, the narrative of the community and technology.

SMELL.BYTES : Installation. Photo:Jenny Marketou

My intentions in SmellBytes to use smell as a my subject matter is to investigate how information reduces subjectivity on the internet into a series of data based traits and propagates methods of classification which present possibilities of manipulating social and cultural defects in our cyberculture. Taking an imaginary and reverse engineering approach I am speculating in the origins of a serial
sniffer programmed as an intelligent agent named Chris.053 who loves to roam on line only to sniff body odor on the net. The invisible net running persona of Chris.053 is inspired by Jean -Batiste Grenouille, the fetishist serial killer in Patrick Siskind's best-selling novel Perfume.

SMELL.BYTES: Jenny Marketou