Adnose

The multimedia artist Adnan Aga was born without a sense of smell and has never experienced what others described to him as the superpower of being transported through time and space by volatile molecules entering his nose. His installation Adnose is an experimental prosthetic device in the shape of a wall-mounted nose which uses Computer Vision and OpenAI's most advanced system, GPT-4, to predict the smell of any object presented to it. If an object is presented to one of Adnose's nostrils, the other nostril prints out the description of the object's smell.

Adnose serves not only as Adnan's nose, but as the nose of all members of the anosmic community, who constantly wonder what the things around them smell like. The artist hopes that his project will draw attention to the often-neglected sense of smell and to the challenges faced by those who can't smell.

Adnose will be introduced through a Smell-and-Tell event on Sunday, April 30th from 4 to 6pm. Visitors are encouraged to bring their favorite, or most interesting, or smelliest object to the gallery to challenge Adnose to create a description of its smell. After April 30th, Adnose will continue to be available to predict the smells of objects during regular opening hours in the gallery's Cubiculum Odoratus.