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GYOPO | Craft Contemporary

2025

Curator's talk at Craft Contemporary, with Sarana Mehra, Se Young Au

Los Angeles, August 2025

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile

2025

Panel: Diplomacia en Perfume: El Alma Olfativa de Chile (Perfume as Diplomacy), moderated by Alejandro Soto Rodriguez for Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, Academia Diplomática de Chile, Asociación de Diplomáticos de Chile (ADICA).

Santiago, August 2025

Biblioteca Nacional de Chile

2025

Panel: Independent Perfume: Cultural Connections, with David Muggioli (Andes Aromas, Fundación Chilena del Perfume) and Alejandro Soto Rodriguez (Asociación de Diplomáticos de Chile) 

Santiago, August 2025

Craft Contemporary

2025

Curator Talk and Walk-Through, Ether: Aromatic Mythologies

Los Angeles, June 2025

Philosophical Research Society

2025

Reading for Michelle Tea | Dopamine Press Witch Anthology

Los Angeles, May 2025

Brown University

2025

Talk about contemporary scent practices, Brown University | Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, with Robyn Price.

Online, April 2025

Conference on Olfactory Heritage / MSSES

2025

 Musk and Leather: Perfumery and creative cultural expression 

Moscow & online, April 2025

NASA House: CreateSpace @ SxSW

2025

Sensory Mementos

Exhibited Sensory Mementos at Austin Central Public Library, with NASA House. 

Austin, March 2025

Broad Museum

2024

Scents of Power, in conjunction with the exhibition Mickalene Thomas: All About Love 

Los Angeles, September 2024

Academy Museum

2024

Sensing: John Waters, in conjunction with the exhibition, John Waters: Pope of Trash. With Maite Gomez-Rejon.

Los Angeles, July 2024

Wesleyan University

2024

Talk: Scent + Power

Middletown CT., February 2024

Arizona State University

2024

Vocabularies, Systems, Hedonics: How to Talk About Smell, for Media Arts & Sciences Department, Arizona State University

Tempe AZ., January 2024

Atlas Obscura

2021 - 2024

Ongoing lecture series with Atlas Obscura

+ Experimental Perfumery (3 part)

+ A Brief History of Perfume (3 part)

Online

Impart Summit at Qatar America Institute of Culture

2023

Talk: Five Smells That Shaped Us

Washington DC, October 2023

Osmocosm Conference at M.I.T. Media Lab

2023

Talk: The Limits of Power: Accessibility in Perfumery

Cambridge MA., October 2023

Craft Contemporary

2023

In Conversation: With Steven Gontarski 

Los Angeles,  May 2023

Bridges Gallery

2022

Utopia: Scent in Conceptions of Heaven 

Los Angeles, US

3rd Annual Neurodiversity and the Built Environment Conference:

2022

Power Relations in the Field of Perfumery 

Jefferson University

Philadelphia, US, October 2022

Pratt Institute

2022

Overview of The Institute for Art and Olfaction 

New York, US

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab / Cal Tech

2021

Scent and Placemaking

Pasadena, US

Osmocosm at MIT Media Lab

2021

Creating a Digital Archive of Scent Objects

Cambridge, US

Odeuropa Project

2021

Five Principles for Working With Scent

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Spielart International Theatre Festival

2021

Attainment, Consumption, Creation: Perceptions of Power in Perfumery

Munich, Germany

Livable Conference

2021

Scent in Livable Space 

Online, Canada

Connected by Glass: Perfume

2021

Corning Museum of Glass

Corning, US

New Mexico Highlands University

2017-2021

Ballen Scholar (2020-2021)

Visiting Lecturer (2017-2020)

BA New Media

Las Vegas, NM

Royal College of Art, London

2019-2020

Visiting Lecturer

MA Fashion 

London, UK

Design Akademie, Eindhoven

2018-2020

Visiting Lecturer

BA, Design 

Eindhoven, Netherlands

CEW Scent Innovation Award

2019

Recipient of the Scent Innovation Award

New York, US

Los Angeles Fashion Film Festival

2019

Chemicals, Seduction, and God

Los Angeles, US

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

2019

Scent as Creative Practice 

Los Angeles, US

Natural History Museum

2019

Scent as Creative Practice 

Los Angeles, US 

Aspen Art Museum

2019

Scent in the Paintings of Etel Adnan 

Aspen, US

LA Design Week

2019

The Language of Aroma  

Los Angeles, US

International Flavors & Fragrance

2019

Collaboration in Perfumery

New York, US

Royal College of Art

2018, 2019

Thinking with Smell

London, UK

ArtCenter College of Design

2018, 2019

Scent in Design  

Pasadena, US

Marres

2018

Scent and Access  

Maastricht, Netherlands

Mediamatic

2018

+ Open Sourcing Scent Culture  (2018)

+ A Brief History Of Perfume (2017)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Experimental Scent Summit

2018

Scent and the Concept of Open Source

London, UK

Pitti Fragranze

2017

Panel Discussion

Shifting Olfactory Culture

Florence, Italy

World Perfume Congress

2017

Restoring Perfume’s Past and Future Models

Nice, France

San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

2017

Scent in the Shifting Natural World 

San Francisco, US

IEEE’s Intelligent Futures, SxSW

2017

Binding Emotion & Memory: Science, Story & Scent

Austin, US

Hauser & Wirth

2017

Scent as Creative Practice

Los Angeles, US

St. Jerome’s University

2017

Science and Culture of Scent

With Luca Turin

Waterloo, Canada 

Odorama, Mediamatic

2017

Odorama: Animal Smell 

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Getty Villa

2017

Aromas of the Ancient World 

Los Angeles, US

Experimental Scent Summit

2017

Open Source Methodologies for Perfume

Berlin, Germany

Getty Villa

2014 - 2017

Aphrodisiacs in Ancient Greece and Rome 

Malibu, US

SxSW Interactive

2016

Exploring Scent as a Story Telling Tool

Austin, US

Machine Project

2016

Hypothetical Scents: UFO Abductions

with Joe Merrell 

Los Angeles, US

Getty Center

2014 - 2016

Froth and Folly: Perfume from Louis XIV to Louis XVI

Los Angeles, US

Getty Villa

2014

The Scents of Byzantium 

Malibu, US

Goethe Institut Curation Summit

2012

Curation and Protest

Bogotá, Colombia

DEEP CUTS

More talks, if you're really curious.


Historical Scents for Wellness - LuxePack, Los Angeles (2017)

20th Century Synthetics - Dapper Days, Disneyland Hotel, (2017)

Scent and Public Access - Women’s Center for Creative Work (2017)

Working with Scent in Creative Practice - Sci-Arc Kappe Library (2016)

Scent in Experimental Design - Pomona College (2016)

Scent/Art - Henry Gallery, Seattle (2015)

18th Century French Perfume and Culture - Wallace Collection UK (2014, 2015)

Scent and Persuasion: Shopping Smells - Santa Monica Department of Cultural Affairs (2014)

Liturgical Bliss: The Historical Scents of Worship - The Institute for Art and Olfaction (2014)

Scent as Experimental Art Practice - Fowler Museum (2014)

Scents of the Silk Road - Natural History Museum (2014)

Transmedia Arts Practices: Scent - Big City Forum, Otis College (2014)

Introduction to Olfactory Art - Natural History Museum (2013)

Industry Mentor - SxSW Film (2011)
New Models in Curation - Open Video Conference (2010)
Fundraising & Audience-Building for Filmmakers - ShowBiz Expo (2009)
Multi-Platform and Other Buzz Words - ITVFest (2009)
Fundraising and the Independent Filmmaker - Hollywood Black Film Festival (2009)
Changes in Creative Collaboration - DIY Days Philadelphia (2009)
Tipping Point: Social Change Through Film, Panel - GLAADʼs Queer Lounge at Sundance (2008)
New Distribution Strategies - Slamdance Film Festival (2008, 2009), Power to the Pixel (2008)
Content is King - DIY Days San Francisco (2008)
Leveraging User-Generated Content to Reach Youth - YPulse (2008)
New Distribution Models - American Cinematheque Short Film Seminar (2008)
Audience Taking Control - IFP & Indie GoGo at NYC Internet Week (2008)
Online Content and New Distribution - ConvergeSouth (2007)

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