MAP Presentation Series - Lindsey french

Please join us on Friday, November 3rd from 3:30 - 4:30 pm in-person in Riddell Centre RC 050 for the first installment in the MAP Presentation Series for Fall 2023: Tuning into Atmosphere: Scent, Sound, and Multispecies Exchange.

*Please note that this is an in-person event, however, if you are unable to attend on campus, please e-mail MAP.Admin.DeansOffice@uregina.ca to request a Zoom link.

About the Presenter

Lindsey french (they/she) is an artist, educator and writer whose work engages multisensory signaling within ecological and technological systems. french 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, in a community of artists that continues to shape her practice. They have shared their work widely in museums, galleries, screenings, and diy art spaces, including recent projects at OCAD’s Onsite gallery (Toronto), SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhagen), and in work currently on exhibit at John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), along with collaborative projects at The Chute (Pittsburgh) and for the 4GROUND: Midwest Land Art Biennial (Shafer, Wisconsin).

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), Why Look at Plants (Brill, 2019), and poetry for the journal Forty-Five. They moved from Pittsburgh in 2021 to Treaty 4 to teach as an Assistant Professor in Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.