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Smeller (since 2012 Smeller 2.0) is an installation by the austrian artist Wolfgang Georgsdorf, which as an instrument and medium enables the composing and precise broadcasting or performance of complex odour sequences, which can also be synchronized with simultaneously reproduced sounds, films, narrative texts, dance or theatre.

History
The first mechanically controllable prototype of a scent organ has been developed by Wolfgang Georgsdorf since 1990 and was demonstrated for the first time in the Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum. Georgsdorf thus realized a time-based art form he called Osmodrama, in order to enable the exploration and performative practice of olfactive sequential performances. The instrument is used for staging, programming, recording and playback of odours, odour chords and odour sequences. The Smeller 2.0, which can be played or controlled by MIDI, was first presented to the public in 2012 in the exhibition "Sinnesrausch" at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in the OÖ Kulturquartier in Linz, Austria. Georgsdorf cooperated with the perfumer Geza Schön for the development of the individual odour components. In the same place, one year later, the native scent film "NO (I) SE 1" premiered during the film festival Crossing Europe.

In the same year Georgsdorf received the Austrian award "Outstanding Artist Award for Interdisciplinarity" for the project Smeller 2.0.

In 2016, Georgsdorf presented Smeller 2.0 in the nine-week event Osmodrama Berlin 2016 - Festival für Geruchskunst. In 2017 Wolfgang Georgsdorf received the Art and Olfaction Award for Osmodrama in the category 'Experimental Work with Scent'.

Structure
The Smeller is a kind of organ consisting of tubes and chambers. It is equipped with hundreds of meters of odour-transporting polypropylene pipes and aluminum hoses, which deliver precisely dosed odours to a continuously existing air flow and thus avoid overlays of different fragrances. The Smeller is operated in his current presentation form Smeller 2.0 via computer and MIDI keyboard.

Scent Movies

 * NO(I)SE 1 (2013; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; Smell, Sound, Image; scene in sync; 24 min. first native Scent Film vor Smeller 2.0 as experimental movie vor Expanded Cinema)
 * Edgar Reitz’ „Die andere Heimat“ als Osmodrama (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 240 min.; scene in sync odor sequences to Edgar Reitzs movie, 2013)
 * Omer Fasts „Continuity“ as Osmodrama (2016; Wolfgang Georgsdorf; 40 min.; scene in sync odor sequences to Omer Fasts Documenta13-contribution „Continuity“, 2012)

Literature

 * Klaus Lüber: The Beginning of a New Paradigm – Wolfgang Georgsdorf interviewed by Klaus Lüber, in ZAPACH: Scent – An Invisible Code, Copernicus Science Centre, 2013/14, ISBN 978-83-919263-4-5, S. 118–125.
 * Schmidt, Karlheinz: Der Olfaktorius der Kunst. Karlheinz Schmidt über ein vernachlässigtes Phänomen, in: KUNSTZEITUNG., März 2014, S. 19.
 * Egger, Andreas: Kunstparcour der Sinne. Sinnesrausch im OÖ Kulturquartier in Linz, in: kunst:art, Juli 2012, S. 3.
 * Düfte auf Knopfdruck in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 24. Dezember 2014, S. 23 ff.
 * So riecht die Zukunft in "So klug sind unsere Sinne" (Titelgeschichte, S.20 – S. 30) in ZEIT WISSEN, 2016/2, (S. 28. – S.30).
 * Weihser, Rabea in ZEIT ONLINE: Die Wahnsinnlichkeitsmaschine
 * Pirich, Caroline in Süddeutsche Zeitung: Das Drama Aroma.
 * Danicke, Sandra in ART Magazin: Kunst aus dem Off, September 2016, S. 17.
 * Über das Riechen In: Gottfried Hattinger, OÖ Landesmuseum (Hrsg.): Über die Sinne. Bibliothek der Provinz, 2006, ISBN 978-3-85252-731-4, S. 63.
 * Bartels, Gunda in Der Tagesspiegel am 16. August 2016: Hauch mal, Hauchmaul