Installation view,” Smell Bytes”, 2000 National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece.


Installation view,” Smell Bytes”, 1999-2000 the 2nd adaptation of the work was presented at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany as part of the exhibition Net _Condition curated by Peter Weibel. The installation consists 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.

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.


”SmellBytes”, 1998 screen shot of “ Stinky Gallery” web page from www.smellbytes.com. The website was launched in 1998 and it has been exhibited along with the installation Smell Bytes. It was produced in the context of artist residency at The Banff Center for the Arts in Alberta Canada and it was hosted in their server till it was hacked in 2006.