Installation view,” Smell Bytes”, 2000 National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. This 3rd incarnation of “Smell Bytes” 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 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.
