Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

a creative resource to provoke and inspire

Johnathan McCabe - generative images from diffraction and diffusion computation
Johnathan McCabe

Johnathan McCabe - generative images from diffraction and diffusion computation

It is often in experimental science-based works like those of Jonathan McCabe that we see the seeds of imminent generative algorithms for the gaming environments and CGI which will further saturate our cinemas. These simulations of familiar material growth and behavior are uncanny and seductive as they offer the strange and the familiar in equal measure. As our sense of what is real, indeed of what "real" can even mean at this point in history, evolves/dissolves, it is images such as these which gnaw at its edges digesting old certainties.

But Does It Float
"From time to time he reached in his pocket and closed his hand around the little glass flacon of his perfume.The bottle was still almost full. He had used only a drop of it for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole world."
- Patrick Süskind, 1985, Perfume