The hope and despair of nature, through Nikki Lindt’s eyes — and ears
Annual Connections Lecture welcomes prominent artist to discuss the unseen world
The University of New England welcomed prominent New York City-based artist as the speaker for its annual Connections Lecture series on Thursday, March 9. Her talk, “Recording the Unseen World Beneath Us,” explored her work as an interdisciplinary multimedia artist who explores the dichotomies between the natural world and the way humans interact with it.
The Connections Lecture series, hosted by ӰƵ’s College of Arts and Sciences, brings together leading thinkers from multidisciplinary perspectives. It encourages attendees to engage with scholarly work beyond the classroom with the notion that true understanding comes from breaking down disciplinary boundaries.
“This annual lecture underscores that learning is not so much what you’re studying, but how what you’re studying interacts with what others are studying, and that brings our curriculum to life,” CAS Dean Jonathan Millen, Ph.D., said in his opening remarks. “That’s what excites me most about being a dean.”
Brought up between New York and the Netherlands, Lindt’s artistic work examines climate change, environmental stewardship, and relationship to place. She works primarily in the mediums of painting, video, and underground sound on long-term projects, often collaborating with scientists, philosophers, social scientists, sociologists, and others.
Lindt has participated in residencies at many field stations, including the Toolik Field Station in Alaska; the Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden, a project of The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat; the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest; and the Urban Field Station in New York City.
In 2022, her work was the subject of a fea