THE INSTALLATION

The installation is transforming the space into a comfortable sitting lounge, the floor is covered with a bright blue carpet and six colorful been bag sits .Visitors participation can be just being part of the space while they surrounded by three oversize projections of pre recorded streaming tableaux streaming data of sniffed and abducted portraits by Chris.O53 the protagonist of SmellBytes.

a.	b.

a) Smellbytes. 2000, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
b) 24th Sao Paolo Biennial,1998, Sao Paolo , Brazil

Visitors also participate by enacting as performers while they are interacting with the website ; by having their portraits captured live by Chris.053 via a web cam and simultaneously projected on one of the walls of the space or they can interact with the website and witness Chris.053's olfactory-driven behaviors and hacking strategies.

CREDITS

SmellBytes,1998
The project was conceived, researched and directed by Jenny Marketou SmellBytes was a co production with CEE at The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada (1998)
http://www.ceebanff.ca/sections/portfolio_interactive
Special thanks to: Heath Bunting, Joy Barrett, Sara Diamond, Raitis Smits & Rasa Smitu (Xchange Network).

Original Website (1998)
Scott Wilson, programmer
Ryan Johnston, programmer
Jerry Barenholtz, programmer
Julian Hall, computer technician
Interface concept :Jenny Marketou
Interface design : FDT Design , New York City

Revised Version and Chris.053 Fan Club ,1999
Aaron Ellis, (fan club) programmer , New York City
Marco Sontag, programmer, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Interface concept : Jenny Marketou
Interface design : FDT Design, New York City

Installation Streaming Projections
Jenny Marketou : Video Patching
Shawn Henry and Jenny Marketou : on-line editing
Paul Herspiegel : sound engineer
Halen Kanhn : titles

EXHIBITION HISTORY

SmellBytes was launched during the 24th Sao Paolo Biennial, 1998
Sao Paolo, Brazil as the Greek representation.
Curator Sania Papa. The theme of the Biennial was Cannibalism.

Digital Traces 1999
Pittsburgh Center for The Arts Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
http://www.pittsburgharts.org/digitaltraces/Marketou.htm

NET_CONDITION , 1999-2000
ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany www.zkm.de

Greek -American Artists of the Twentieth Century,1999-2000
The Queens Museum of Art Queens, New York

SMELL.BYTES , The Center for Contemporary Art, 1999
Thessaloniki, Greece

DAC 99, Digital Arts & Culture 1999
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Viper 1999
International Festival for Film Video and New Media Lucerne, Switzerland

INVENCAO 1999
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Through the Looking Glass, 2000
Beachwood Center for the Arts, Beachwood, Ohio.

Tenacity, 2002
curated by Yvonne Volkart , Swiss Institute, New York City
http://www.thing.net/~tenacity/marketou.html

SYNOPSIS 1, Communication, 2000 -2001
National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece
http://www.greece.gr/CULTURE/FineArts/interactivefix.stm

Roots Festival, 2001
Hull Time Based Arts Hull, UK

FEM_ART, Mediarama, 2001
Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporanea Seville, Spain
http://www.othlo.com/0audvisual/mediarama01/01jennymark.html

Re- Media, FOTOFEST 2002
curated by Christiane Paul Houston,Texas
http://www.fotofest.org/ff2002/remedia.htm

ESC im Labor, 2002
Craz, Austria

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SmellBytes, exhibition catalog for Sao Paolo Biennial, 1998, introduction
by Sania Papa and Sara Diamond produced by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece

NET_CONDITION and Global Media, 2001, ZKM exhibition catalog edited by Timothy Druckrey and Peter Weibel, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass

SmellBytes,1999 exhibition catalog ,introduction SmellBytes : In the Realm of the Senses by Christiane Paul, produced by the Center for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

SmellBytes, Synopsis 1, Communication 2001, exhibition catalog, introduction by Anna Kafetsi , texts by Christiane Paul and Sania Papa. Interviews Jenny Marketou with Peter Weibel and Jenny Marketou with Cornelia Sollfrank. Produced by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

SmellBytes, RE MEDIA, FotoFest 2002, exhibition catalog.introduction by Christiane Paul.
http://www.fotofest.org/news.asp?section=3

Links
http://love-scent.com/index.html
http://www.love-scent.com/scentoferos/index.html
http://pheromones.com/
http://www.realaroma.com/
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s278744.htm
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology, Vienna, Austria Human Body Odour, Symmetry, and Attractiveness
http://evolution.anthro.univie.ac.at/institutes/urbanethology/student/html/anja/anjapro.html