Novelist Marcel Proust famously described scents unique ability to evoke emotionally vivid memories. Unlike visual memory references, smell physically enters our bodies and is interpreted in the part of the brain that processes emotion and memory.
The technology to record scent, as digital data, and recreate it is becoming increasingly commercially viable. What possibilities does this therefore create for new experiences of memory and our ability to manipulate emotions?
In Remembrance of things past explores scenarios in which scent memory has replaced existing emotional stimulants.