Lindsey french is an artist, educator and writer currently based in Maine, there teaching as Libra Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Maine. Lindsey earned an interdisciplinary BA in Environment, Interaction, and Design from Hampshire College in 2010, and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies in 2013 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lindsey’s research-based practice engages with multi-sensory and multi-species signaling to consider positions of listening, receptivity, and marginality as valid and active political and communicative positions. Drawing from media studies, olfaction, botany, field recording practices, and ecology, they make multi-sensory video installations, radio and scent transmissions, and collaborative socially-engaged art projects.
Lindsey has shared work widely in museums, galleries, screenings, and D.I.Y. art spaces,
including the OCAD’s Onsite Gallery (Toronto), SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen), and the
Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago). Recent publications include chapters for Ambiguous
Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (Actar, 2022), Olfactory Art and the
Political in an Age of Resistance (Routledge, 2021), and Why Look at Plants (Brill, 2019).
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