This site is the documentation and archive of the activities of Pieter Verhees.
I like to work on cross-over projects between theatre-art-newmedia and technology. For others and for myself. Doing this for several years now has lead to a diversity of projects until now. A continuing search definitly not ended yet...
Art project Cosmic Travel Kit - Eindhovens Dagblad
Our smell is much less tangible than touch, hearing, or vision. There is yet no digital, electronic, or mechanical equivalent for the molecules that tease our noses. And how we label our nose sensations is the least objective of them all. So a controlled use of scents in arts, games and environment control is an ongoing and long-cherished wish. From technical point of view there are a diversity of techniques to bring the smells in the air: heating, atomising, through solvents, nebulizing... all with there own specific technical merites.
scent-switch proto
I experimented, build and developped several prototypes for scent related projects:
Commisioned by "Wij doen dingen" I build an interactive installation for "het Speelkaartenmuseum" in Turnhout. The cloud reveals series of cards based on a timeline. Part of an exhibition by Cartamundi, world leader in the production of play cards and board games.
“The way we code the Web will determine the way we live online. So we need to bake our values into our code. Freedom of expression needs to be baked into our code. Privacy should be baked into our code. Universal access to all knowledge. But right now, those values are not embedded in the Web.”
— Brewster Kahle (Founder of the Internet Archive)
