Installation “ Smell Bytes”, 1999 showcased at the Greek Pavilion. The artist was selected with this project to re present Greece in the 1998 Biennial of Sao Paolo in Sao Paolo Brazil. The project was a co production with the Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta, Canada. “Smell Bytes” is a project, which consists of an installation of three video projections, and it is exhibited along with a web component where the protagonist is Chris.05. As the title draws its name the artist has been inspired by the persona of Jean Batiste Grenouille the fetishist serial killer in Patrick Siskind’s novel Perfume. The installation transforms the space into a comfortable sitting lounge, with bean chairs and computer stations surrounded by three oversized single channel video projections with sound. The work develop Marketou’s continued interest in a fusion of art and technology by using smell as her subject matter and cutting edge technology to investigate how information on the internet reduces subjectivity into a series of data based traits and propagates methods of classification which present possibilities of manipulating social and cultural defects in our cyber culture.
