Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Lindsey French

Interdisciplinary Artist

“Sensory Media & the Atmospheric Commons”

Lindsey French is an artist, educator and writer, earning 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 has shared work widely in museums, galleries, screenings, and D.I.Y. art spaces, including the Ontario College of Art & Design’s Onsite Gallery (Toronto, Canada), SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark), and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea). Publications include chapters for Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural (Actar, 2022) and Olfactory Art and the Political in an Age of Resistance (Routledge, 2021), and an Open Educational Resource book, Listening as a Shared and Social Practice, co-edited with Kate Joranson (University of Regina, 2024). They are currently Libra Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Maine.

"In my studio practice, I consider the possibilities of working critically and poetically with technology, positioning artistic processes as forms of practice for social change. My research-based practice draws from media studies, olfactory art, and plant studies to consider positions of receptivity and marginality as valid and active political and communicative positions. Multi-sensory video installations, radio and scent transmissions, and collaborative socially-engaged art projects begin as experiments to destabilize the primacy of the human sensorium, and quietly open a number of modes of perception beyond the clear distinctions of human senses. My experiments in digital media open onto considerations of media more broadly, as I investigate the nature of media and communication. In recent work, I consider the airspaces as a multisensory and mutispecies commons."