The ART AND OLFACTION AWARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL WORK WITH SCENT

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The Art and Olfction Award for Experimental Work with Scent honors the work of people who engage with scent outside of the realm of commercial perfumery. This is a discretionary award, meaning that there is a pool of judges specific to this award. The award is not judged blindly. 

The Art and Olfaction Award for Experimental Work with Scent is for artists or other creative or technological practitioners who make unconventional or non-traditional use of scent that takes it out of the domain of traditional perfumery.

An experimental submission will meet one or more of these points:

• The project may be a collaborative project, or a solo project.
• The project must have been created with the intention of existing in the realm of a creative practice, whose primary audience lies firmly in the space of culture, technology, design, media, academia, etc.
• The scent component of the project is concept-driven, and produced in conjunction or in support of a creative or technological practice or project. 
• The scent project has been publicly exhibited or shown in the 2024 calendar years. Examples of this include but are not limited to a gallery, a publication, a theatre, online, an academic conference, etc.
• The scent component of the project may have been formulated either in collaboration with a professional perfumer, by the artist themself, or by any other author. 
• For the sake of the awards, we define a creative practice as a visual, performative, literary, conceptual, technological, installation-based, curatorial or musical practice.

All submitters to the experimental category should be prepared to provide the information and names of their collaborators, including the project head and the submission's primary perfumer. 

This information will be requested if the submission makes the finals.

SAMPLES

Because some experimental projects contain multiple scent components, for the experimental category we accept up to four scent samples, per project submitted.