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Gluon Program at NTAA'25
The Liedts-Meesen Foundation supports the Gluon project by organizing workshops, lectures, and an exhibition by Peter de Cupere in Brussels and Ghent during NTAA'25.
Exhibition Schedule
Brussels Exhibition
Opening: February 23, 2025, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Exhibition Period: February 23 - March 16, 2025
Hours: Saturday & Sunday, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday - Friday (by appointment only: artresearch@gluon.be)
Location: GLUON - Slachthuisstraat 4-6, 1000 Brussels
Ghent Exhibition at NTAA'25
Opening: March 27, 2025, 8:00 PM
Exhibition Period: March 29 - June 8, 2025
Hours: Thursday 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Free Workshops: FROM SCENT TO FORM
All workshops run from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Maximum 20 participants per session
(for youth 12+ who may bring one adult)
- • Workshop 1: April 8, 2025 (register here)
- • Workshop 2: April 10, 2025 (register here)
- • Workshop 3: April 15, 2025 (register here)
- • Workshop 4: April 17, 2025 (register here)
Special Event
April 23, 2025: Digital Deal Conference & Studiotopia
More information coming soon
About 'Sensory Interfaces' Exhibition
The Sensory Interfaces exhibition offers visitors a groundbreaking experience that merges olfactory art with augmented reality (AR). It builds upon the rich history of media art and its pursuit of multi-sensory experiences, including touch, taste, and immersive images. Referencing pioneering augmented reality installations such as Jeffrey Shaw's Golden Calf (1994), artist Peter de Cupere pushes boundaries further by encouraging visitors to discover scent compositions in harmony with AR creations. Works like The Secret and Human Red Flower, a red flower hidden in a high heel, use AR and scent to evoke powerful emotional responses. Scents attract, repel, and warn, functioning as factual signifiers that convey instinctive messages. The exhibition invites visitors to rethink how we interact with both art and the world around us, suggesting a future where digital technologies can touch other senses, challenging the world of sensory interface research and exciting developments in immersive art.
About Peter de Cupere
Peter de Cupere, a scent artist with over 20 years of experience, has created more than 700 scent-related artworks exploring social, cultural, and environmental themes. His works have been featured in more than 200 international exhibitions, and he has given lectures worldwide. He is a professor at PXL-MAD School of Arts in Hasselt and is co-founder of the Open Senses Lab. In 2018, he won the Golden Pear Award in London for his contribution to promoting scent in art. In 2019, he completed his doctorate with research on scent as an artistic concept at UHasselt, PXL-MAD, and VUB Brussels.
Workshop From Scent to Form
Close your eyes and smell... The scent of freshly cut grass fills the air. Immediately, you're overcome with the warm feeling associated with those first spring days. You open the book you just bought at the bookstore, and the smell of unread pages greets you. You can't wait to dive into the story. Familiar? Our sense of smell has a strong memory that links specific scents to particular moments, objects, or events. During this workshop, you'll explore the scent collection of artist Peter De Cupere from his interactive exhibition Sensory Interfaces. Each scent is associated with an object that visitors can discover in Augmented Reality. Now it's your turn to smell attentively. You'll design your own zine that tells your scent memory. Starting from nothing more than what the sense of smell perceives, you'll then create your own 3D object via AI prompting. The result is presented in Augmented Reality and is accessible with a QR code in your zine. This creates a digital range of unique forms from everyone's personal scent experience.
About GLUON
Since its inception, GLUON has been raising awareness about global challenges. A flourishing society builds on a balanced interaction between the humanities and exact sciences, between humans, their technological achievements, and the natural environment on which they depend. We consider interactions between researchers, artists, citizens, and students essential in a common search for solutions to the dangers and challenges that affect this system. To this end, GLUON develops a platform that maximizes collaborations and confrontations between these different actors. Our main mission is to stimulate partnerships between artists, science, and technology. GLUON's Art&Research operation facilitates and supports residencies of artists in R&D departments of companies and research institutions on one hand, and residencies of scientists in artists' studios on the other. These interactions yield artistic and philosophical results, as well as innovative ideas, services, and products in non-artistic sectors.
The educational program or "GLUON Education" is the other important pillar of Gluon. The educational work is aimed at (Brussels) youth aged 14 to 18 and supports them through art in developing digital skills, critical thinking, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Our headquarters is located in the center of Brussels and consists of offices and an exhibition space. GLUON realizes its program in collaboration with a growing number of international and national partners.