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noze
Fabian Winkler in collaboration with Wolfgang Käppner and the Karlsruhe Research Center
Noze is an interactive installation that explores and visualizes olfactory
processes relating to humans and machines. It shows the similarities and
differences between human and robotic perceptions of fragrances. In the
process, noze translates invisible aroma information into novel images.
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Installation Setup
Technically, the project is based on three challenging technologies
developed at the Karlsruhe Research Center (FZK): an electronic nose (a
smelling sensor), an artificial neural network (analyzing incoming odor
data), and a fluidic actuator moving the nose.
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Upon entering the exhibition
space, visitors will first see 5 aroma terminals, each equipped with a
bottle of scented oil (orange, rosemary, peppermint, lavender and litsea
cubeba). Colored spotlights establish a color code for each scent and allow
the visitor to distinguish aromas visually. Using a disperser, visitors are
invited to create individual "fragrance cocktails", mixing different scented
oils on a tree shaped paper card. In this process, nothing of the original
color code is visible on the paper card. Individual fragrance cocktails can
only be distinguished by their aroma. Exhibition visitors then present their
aromatized paper card to the electronic nose, integrated into a bionic snout.
The snout literally "sniffs" at the cards and analyzes each fragrance
mixture in realtime. Based on a constantly evolving pattern recognition
algorithm, the fragrance information is translated back into the original
color code and dynamic three-dimensional structures. These ephemeral real-time
computer-generated aroma architectures represent the result of the
fragrance classification.
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Exhibitions
- noze is part of the permanent collection of the Karlsruhe Research Center, Kalrsruhe, Germany
- Erde 2.0, (Earth 2.0) 50 Jahre Land Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, July 2002
- SENSOR, international fair for sensor applications, Nürnberg, Germany, May 2001
- Fiction and Science, lothringer13/halle gallery, Munich, Germany, March 2001
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