Charles Lindsay is a conceptual artist-adventurer whose work synthesizes ideas about time, technology, eco-systems and semiotics. Lindsay creates immersive environments, sound installations, sculptures built from salvaged aerospace and bio-tech equipment.  These investigations coalesce in his evolving FIELD STATION installations. His other current projects include inter-active public artworks, rain forest conservation and SETI AIR, the artists in residence program at the SETI Institute. FIELD STATION 4 is live at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, through 2020. “Recipes for the Mind” is now available from Terranova / MIT Press, with a parallel podcast and lecture series gearing up.

For Lindsay, time is even more of an unknown unknown. When looking at his work, we experience a kind of space age nostalgia that isn’t nostalgic; an (un)certain future that isn’t futuristic and a gap where the present should be. Lindsay’s work layers time, confuses chronology and keeps us guessing at what we are looking at, how it’s communicating, and what kind of being made it happen.  

Denise Markonish, Curator, MassMoCA

OSA EARS is designed to provide real time high resolution sound and a cloud of species and climate change data from one of Earth’s most bio-diverse rain forests to anyone anywhere in the world. A networked array of microphones, web cams and sensor banks will expand over time to cover OSA Conservation’s 5000 acre wildlife corridor, from ground level to canopy top. Located on Costa Rica’s OSA peninsula OSA EARS will create a broad based platform for researchers and artists interested in habitat protection, soundscape ecology, remote sensing and bird song. It will serve as a home base for cutting edge field work, offering an opportunity to develop and adapt surveillance and sensor technologies for inter-disciplinary wildlife monitoring and protection. ECOTONE is the large scale art installation currently being developed in concert with OSA EARS. The ECOTONE will be modular, scalable and technologically breath-taking. Angel investors and visionary philanthropists welcome.

Why all the Gold? I'm interested in connections to deep time, in symbols and experiences that transcend narrow, culturally specific views of now. All the gold on Earth was created in stars that died before ours was born. Horseshoe crabs have been on Earth for 450 million years. Humpback whales appear to have language, our machines are learning and the stone age is closer than ever.