Charles Lindsay is an artist, exploration geologist and filmmaker who moves freely between charged landscapes and experimental laboratories, finding signals buried in matter, machines and culture—and building instruments that make them perceptible. He brings a wry sense of humor and an attentive calm to the spaces he enters. His work spans deep time and the emerging future, folding archaeology, artificial intelligence, consciousness, sound and nonhuman communication into strange, often playful encounters. PLEASE FORGET (EVERYTHING) is the evolving vessel for this inquiry: part installation, part cinema, part field station for recognizing forms of intelligence not created in our image.
Many of my sculptural and assemblage works incorporate custom-engineered digital countdown clocks. These register time behaving in non-linear fashion, accordion-like—speeding up, slowing down, occasionally glitching. Observation literally affects the perception of the artworks. Viewers often find this disconcerting. That is intentional. If left continuously powered, our coders’ calculations suggest these clocks will zero out in roughly seventy-seven years—curiously close to a human lifespan.