We Will Keep Infecting These Machines by F.C. Zuke

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George Caleb Bingham Gallery

On view: February 9 - 20, 2026

Artist Talk: February 19, 4:00 p.m.

Reception: February 19, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

This exhibition draws on Donna Haraway’s concept of the “Chthulucene,” a framework where human and non-humans exist in entangled states. We Will Keep Infecting These Machines explores systematic influences on human society but also serves as a call to action for us to remain active and thoughtfully engaged, resisting the temptation to become cynical in a world plagued with challenges that seem unsurmountable. By remaining entangled with (yet critical of) new technologies and networks, perhaps we can infect our values into systems that are cold, anti-human, destructive, and directly opposed to our wellbeing. Viewers are invited to explore audiovisual, sculptural, and interactive works that explore a variety of subjects important in current discourse: telecommunication monopolies, invisible labor, housing crises, historical forgetfulness, and prescribed standards of human intelligence. These projects pose questions concerning the relationship of the 21st-century human to the radio, the insect, the landlord, the cinema, and to one another.