Engage in a multisensory listening event at the Frick Fine Arts Library, and tune into the airwaves with both scent and sound. Together, we'll listen in on sound warnings composed by students and members of the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Studio Arts alongside the scent-based warning signals of plants. This creative project is made possible through collaboration with Humanities Center Visiting Fellow Lindsey french. 

Alarm Clouds will remain in the Frick Fine Arts Library through February 21, 2025.

About the artist:

Lindsey french (she/they) is an artist, educator and writer whose work engages in multi-sensory signaling within ecological and technological systems. She has shared her work nationally in museums, galleries, screenings, and diy art spaces including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and the International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago), Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York), the Miller Gallery for Contemporary Art (Pittsburgh), and Lease Agreement (Lubbock). Recent publications include chapters for Olfactory Art and The Political in an Age of Resistance (Routledge), Why Look at Plants (Brill), and poetry for the journal Forty-Five. They earned a BA through an interdisciplinary course of study - Environment, Interaction, and Design - at Hampshire College, and an MFA in Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently, french is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Maine.

Learn more from french during her visiting lecture with the Humanities Center on January 30 from 12:30-2pm (see link for location, zoom link, and materials).