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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Off to Japan! ✈️🇯🇵 Julia Ostwald is on her way for a research trip. She’ll be giving a talk at the inaugural conference of “SOFAS. New Frontiers and Possibilities in Atmospheric Studies” organized by KOIAS and present her work on Olfactory Choreographies and Climate Change at Kyoto-saga Art College!

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SOFAS Inaugural Conference — Kobe 2026

The inaugural conference of the Society for Atmospheric Studies, Kobe, 23–26 September 2026 — in-person and online, free. The full program is online.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A true highlight at Ars Electronica Festival: meeting Maki Ueda with her Project "Olfacto-Politics: The Air as a Medium." Thank you for the great conversation about the intersection of #sensorystudies, #Olfactory#Art and #Scent in Media Arts — leaving with tons of fresh ideas!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The #OLFAC team is deep in summer focus mode! ☀️ We're currently dedicating our time to intensive #research and writing.✍️ we wish researches a highly productive season and relaxing holidays. Stay nosey for exciting events in the upcoming winter term! 🔬 #AcademicSky #sensorystudies #olfaction

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Neutrality as Method?" Freda Fiala presents her paper on "Exhibitions and the Cultural Politics of Sino-Austrian Relations during the Cold War” at the #Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

with a great talk about "A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling", Brandon LaBelle held the final Lecture of our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance". Thank you to everyone who joined online and in Linz. you can find more impressions of all lectures here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

in what ways does feeling allow for a form of holistic sensing? today at 5 pm, we welcome Brandon LaBelle to the last session of our #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" We're excited for his Talk "A loving ear – toward a poetic ecology of feeling" join online of the final lecture!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Thinking democratic interactions as multisensorial and embodied fosters more- than-human articulations and representations that have been excluded from logos-centric and anthropocentric democratic discourse." Thank you Bettina Wuttig for your interesting Talk in our #OLFAC #lectureseries!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

OLFAC on the Road in June! Julia Ostwald presented her paper "Olfactory Atmospheres of Evil in Romantic Ballet" at the #conference "Performing Evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000" at Leuven University. www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch... #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Thank you so much @erikawicky.bsky.social for letting us sense the Atmosphere of a painters' studio in Nineteenth-Century France! we really enjoyed your talk in our #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

How did a studio #smell in the 19th Century? Today, 5pm, we welcome @erikawicky.bsky.social to our #lectureseries with her talk: "Sensing the Atmospheres of Painters’ Studios in Nineteenth-Century France" Join online! "the #Senses in #Performance" by #OLFAC register: office.olfac@kunstuni-linz.at

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you, @willtullett.bsky.social, for taking us through the history of stink bombs in your lecture " #Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: #Stink Bombs in Interwar Europe"! you can find more impressions and the full program of our #lectureseries on our website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 28/05/2026

Vielen Dank an alle, die an der Demonstration teilgenommen haben. Gemeinsam haben wir ein starkes Zeichen für die Zukunft der Universitäten gesetzt und treten weiterhin für Qualität in Lehre und Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit und Zukunftsfähigkeit ein. #UnisRetten

Team der Universität Wien, mit Rektor Schütze und Vizerektor*innen sowie Wissenschafter*innen, ÖH und Führungskräfte im Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien, kurz vor dem Beginn der Demonstration. Die Gruppe hält zwei Banner, auf denen zu lesen ist "Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen. #UnisRetten"

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I am speaking later, in Linz and online! What do stink bombs do and how/why did people use them? How did their use vary in different countries? How did they differ from previous smelly weapons and/or attempts at smelly disruption of public events? These are some of the things I'm thinking about.

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 26/05/2026

#UnisRetten: Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen‼️✊ Gemeinsam auf die Straße gehen und ein Zeichen setzen -gegen die geplanten Einsparungen und für Qualität in Lehre & Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit & Zukunftsfähigkeit! 📅: 27. Mai, 13 Uhr 📍: Hauptgebäude Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/un...

Demo in Wien! Mittwoch, 27. Mai, 13 Uhr. Für die Unis. Auf die Straße. Uni Wien Hauptgebäude.

Demoroute: Start Uni Wien, über das Wissenschaftsministerium zum Ballhausplatz.

Ablauf: 13 Uhr, Startkundgebung und Reden vor der Uni Wien (Hauptgebäude), 14 Uhr, Demozug zum Ballhausplatz über das BMBWF, 15:30 Uhr, Schlusskundgebung am Ballhausplatz

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

What is the fate of #smell as a tool of #activism and/or political repression? Today at 5 pm, we're excited to welcome @willtullett.bsky.social to our #lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" with his talk: #Olfactory Violence and the Freedom to Speak: #StinkBombs in Interwar Europe

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Thank you Ulrike Hanstein for "Lingering with "Bass" (2024, Steve McQueen)" with us in your talk about how this durational #audiovisual performance could link embodied #sensory perceptions with social constructions of race! stay tuned for more of our #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

How does Steve McQueen's immersive installation "Bass" use pulsating light and deep sound to make the haunting history of violence and race physically tangible? we welcome Ulrike Hanstein from #Valieexport center in #Linz to our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance" Tomorrow - 5 pm!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thank you Myia Yoshida for your sensitive, grounding #lecture "Mimi o Sumasu – the Very Act of Listening." Through images, sound and poetry, she explored this notion as attunement to ecological sensitivity, where time becomes both the subject and the method of inquiry for unsayble. #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Thank you to #bankleer aka Karin Kasböck & Christoph Maria Leitner for last week's lecture of our #OLFAC #lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"! in "Sinn für Unlösbares" they talked about how the #climatecrisis is also a crisis of #perception. stay tuned for tomorrow's lecture!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"Healing Architecture - Wie Architektur heilen hilft" und wie prägend dabei #Gerüche für die #Atmosphäre sind, erzählt Silke Felber #Ö1 #Radiokolleg! schaltet ein! Morgen, 12.05. um 9:30 Uhr! oe1.orf.at/programm/202... #OLFAC#Radio

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Healing Architecture - Wie Architektur heilen hilft (2) | DI | 12 05 2026 | 9:30

Wie Material und Farbe Wohlbefinden prägen

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

#Publication #News! 📖 Julia Ostwald published the article "Choreographing Magnetism. The Performance of Knowledge in the Ethereal Field of Forces" in the edited volume "The Theatrics of Persuasion in the Long Nineteenth Century" at @leuvenup.bsky.social #openaccess: doi.org/10.2307/jj.3... #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

"Tasting skin - on chillies and chills" Thank you Karin Harrasser for your fascinating perspective on Diego #Velázquez and how the #skin can be seen as a profoundly political organ. Join our #OLFAC #Lectureseries "the #Senses in #Performance" Wednesdays at 5pm.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

🐍 sssss 🐍 Thank you Nicole Haitzinger ( #DanceStudies, University of Salzburg) and Christina Gillinger-Correa Vivar ( #Tanzquartier Vienna #TQW) for this very insightful talk about "Performing #Snakes ind #Modernity and Today" Tune in for the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance"

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

After this break of 3 weeks, we're excited that the #OLFAC #Lectureseries "The #Senses in #Performance will continue! "Performing Snakes in Modernity and Today" by Nicole Haitzinger and Christina Gillinger This Wednesday 5 PM - join us online (registration via office.olfac@kunstuni-linz.at)

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

”Wound to Wall Text – Remembering Taiwan’s Late Martial Law Years in #Museum Narratives” Last week, Freda presented her paper at the European Association of #Taiwan Studies ( #EATS ) Annual #Conference at the University of Portsmouth. #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"How can a vanishing glacier be digitally archived and made perceptible in virtual space?" We welcome Tina Frank and Alexis Dworsky for this weeks #Lecture of our series "the #Senses in #Performance" Join us tomorrow at 5 pm in Linz or online! (partly in German) www.kunstuni-linz.at/en/current/e...

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320 GB in a backpack – the physical aspect of digital art across glaciers

The Chair of History of Knowledge and the ERC project OLFAC invite to a lecture series.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Yesterday, we kicked off our #Lectureseries "The Senses in Performance" with Silke Felber, Freda Fiala & Julia Ostwald. They mapped #performance history & #sensorystudies for audiences in Linz and online, setting the stage for the semester ahead! #OLFAC #olfactory

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

25% of U.S. college students say they would rather lose their sense of #smell than their phone (thanks for the data, Rachel Herz!). Olfactory cultural studies clearly have work to do. Thanks to the organizers of the "Odorous Object" conference @brown.edu! @smellstudiesgroup.bsky.social #ERC #ERCCoG

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We're excited for the start of our Lecture series: THE SENSES IN PERFORMANCE by #OLFAC! Starting next week, Wednesdays, 5:00–6:30 pm CET. Join us in Linz or online via Livestream. Artists & scholars explore the senses as dynamic sites of practice & inquiry! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/lecture-seri...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Am 28.2. - 17:05 Uhr, Ö1 einschalten: Diagonal über die Macht des #olfactory – von #Duft als sozialer Distinktion bis zu KI-Parfums, Museumsgerüchen und dem Duftmarken-Affentheater in Social Media. Silke Felber und unser Projekt #OLFAC mit dabei im Radio. Nicht verpassen!📻 oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

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Duftmarken. Diagonal geht der Nase nach. | SA | 28 02 2026 | 17:05

Die Nase hilft zu identifizieren. Gerüche sind Werkzeuge der Distinktion, im Sozialen wie neuerdings auch in der Bildenden Kunst und in der Architektur.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Coming up! on February 24, Silke gives a public #lecture at the Deutsches Haus at New York University titled " #Olfactory #Arts in a Warming World”. Following the lecture, she will be in conversation with Zachary Samalin and Brandon Woolf. #OLFAC #NYU as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

In November last year, The first #OLFAC #ArtistResidency was dedicated to exploring the dynamic relationship between #smell, #affect, and bodily #movement. read more about choreographer Paola Bianchi and the musician-composer Stefano Murgia here: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/artists-in-r...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Final day of the #OLFAC #Symposium made essences emerge. fascinating talks and lecture performances on #olfactory of Lindsey French, Alanna Lynch, Helene Loos and Clara Muller. Sarah Kolb & Freda Fiala in dialogue on fungal volatiles. it opened a dense atmosphere of questions. 🌫️

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Gwenn-Ael Lynn @gwennaellynn.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

A couple of photos from my performed lecture for the @olfac.bsky.social symposium in Vienna this past week. Thank you so much we all had a blast!

Astronaut at a lecture desk making and serving tea.

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Day 2 of the #OLFAC#Symposium was stimulating our #senses with fascinating lectures of Dorothée King and Hsuan L. Hsu. Gwenn-Aël Lynn took us to space with his lectureperformance. Also our OLFAC team members, Silke Felber, Julia Ostwald and Freda Fiala gave us their insights on the #olfactory. -->

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Day 1 of the #OLFAC#Symposium: Athmospheres unfold. With Debra Riley Parr joining us online, Marco Tullio Liuzza giving us insights and a lecture performance full of Garlic by Brandon Woolf, finished by a #sensory performance by the collective Mai Ling, it smelled like a wonderful start! #olfactory

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We warmly wish you a happy #NewYear2026! we're still looking back fondly on our #OLFAC #Symposium in Vienna last december, where we explored #Sensing across the #Humanities, #Sciences, and #Arts. Stay tuned for our recap, followed by exciting 2026 announcements! #sensorystudies #olfactory

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

in two Days, Vienna will have a special #smell! #OLFAC will host its #interdisciplinary #Symposium at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social! Join us for Sensing across the Humanities, Sciences and Arts! the full Programm is on our Website: olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin...

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

This week we welcomed choreographer Paola Bianchi and musician Stefano Murgia, who will be Artists in Residence with the ERC project #OLFAC until December 12, 2025. At our Get Together, they explained their #choreographic and #olfactory research!

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

you can already spot the poster of our #OLFAC#Symposium all around Kunstuniversität Linz. we are so excited for December 3rd-5th, where it'll be all about #sensing across the #humanities #sciences and #Arts! See you in Vienna at the @ifk-vienna.bsky.social

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our Program for the #OLFAC#Symposium is out now! We warmly welcome all those interested in the multisensory, critical, and imaginative dimensions of #smell to join us in Vienna! More information on our Website! olfac.kunstuni-linz.at/olfac-sensin... #sensory#olfactory#sciences#culturalstudies

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

this week, Freda Fiala will talk about ”Entangled Worlds and the Logistics of Chinese Display in the 1873 Wiener Weltausstellung" at the Habsburg Central Europe in Global History Summer School in Prague! @ikwoeaw.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social #GlobalHistory #WorldExpositions #OLFAC

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OLFAC - Olfactormativity @olfac.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

COMING UP! 3 – 5 December 2025 | @ifk-vienna.bsky.social Join the first #Symposium of #OLFAC, bringing together researchers across the #humanities, #sciences, and #arts to explore the #olfactory dimensions of knowledge and experience. #InterdisciplinaryStudies #SensoryHumanities #SaveTheDate

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