F. C. Zuke

Nocturne Artists Spotlight: Time-Based Media and Experimental Film 🎞️ Barry Anderson, F. C. Zuke + Krista Leigh Steinke Next in our artist spotlights for Nocturne, May 8–9 at Frisco Commons Park, we’re highlighting artists working with moving image, video, and experimental film, examining perception, culture, and the systems that shape how we see and understand the world. 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲 @kristaleigh3 Krista Leigh Steinke is a lens-based artist and filmmaker whose experimental work explores the intersection of the physical, social, and personal. Drawing from science, history, and lived experience, her films consider how we understand ourselves in relation to the natural world. 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 @barryanderson Barry Anderson works across video, photography, sound, and installation. His recent projects include AI-processed videos and prints that explore psychological space through abstract form, alongside collaborative works that merge moving image with music and performance. 𝗙. 𝗖. 𝗭𝘂𝗸𝗲 @fczuke F. C. Zuke creates audiovisual and interactive works that investigate how beliefs are formed, shared, and performed in society. Their projects draw on historical texts, media systems, and cultural narratives to explore structures of power and influence. ✨ Stay tuned as we continue spotlighting the artists who will be transforming Frisco Commons Park for Nocturne, May 8 & 9. •⁠ ⁠• • Nocturne 2026 🌠 Join us for Nocturne, transforming Frisco Commons Park with an art trail after nightfall, featuring light, video, and sound installations by leading regional artists. The art trail draws inspiration from the hidden rhythms of the natural world, celebrating the plants, creatures, and dreamlike atmosphere that emerge at night. This is a free, family-friendly event, open to all. Nocturne is a Play Frisco event, produced by the creators of AURORA. 📍Frisco Commons Park 📅 May 8 & 9th | 8:30pm – 11:30pm 🎟 Free & open to all @playfrisco @dallasaurora #nocturne2026 #friscotx #visitfrisco #publicart #arttrail #lightart #familyfriendly #thingstodofrisco

Some images from my solo show, 𝙒𝙚 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, at the Bingham Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. Aside from the show, it was also great meeting so many new people and interacting with students. Special thanks to Ruiqi Zhang @_ruiqi_zhang for the invitation and help with install/deinstall! Works included: 𝙎𝙪𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 (𝘼𝙥𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖) (2026) interactive installation | 3-channel video, quadraphonic sound system, momentary switches, 3D-printed interface, school desk, electrical relay, Arduinos, Bluetooth transmitters, electrical wiring, custom software 𝙍𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 (2025) 120” x 36” x 36” | 330 feet of 70mm IMAX film, 36” diameter birch disc, DC motor, video, sound, CRT television, HD projector, Arduino, RF transmitter, custom software 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙡 (2023) video, animation, stereo, FM transmitters, radio | 19’30” | 𝙏𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧’𝙨 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙜𝙚 (2025) video, stereo | 5’07” | collaboration with C. A. Huff 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙃𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚 (2026) UHD video (2160 x 3840) | OLED display, sound, altered porch lanterns, LED bulbs, electrical wire, Arduino, solid state relay, sensor, custom software | 66” x 52” @binghamgallery #contemporaryart #artexhibition #art #newgenres #newmedia #creativecoding #sonicarts #videoart #interactiveart

From @chrissalisonhuff and @fczuke comes “Toiler’s Dirge!” In talking about the film they had this to say: “This project was a collaboration between two artists who are very interesting in site-specificity. We found this project to be cathartic through our investigation of unseen labor within our immediate environment.” C. A. Huff’s work spans documentary and experimental film and explores counterculture in the South. F. C. Zuke creates audiovisual and interactive art installations that examine systematic belief. Both artists live in Oxford, Mississippi and are faculty members at the University of Mississippi. #oxfordfilmfestival #supportindiefilm #indiefilm #filmfestival #oxfordms

My solo show, We Will Keep Infecting These Machines, is up for the next two weeks at the Bingham Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. 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. @binghamgallery @_ruiqi_zhang #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #ArtInstallation

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: F. C. Zuke @fczuke / USA In Always so Artificial, F. C. Zuke begins with a quiet photograph of an electrical pole outside their childhood bedroom. Using AI to extend the frame with the prompt “there’s nothing else out there,” the image becomes a vast, constructed landscape—serene, surreal, and subtly uncanny. Clues of its artificiality remain, inviting reflection on memory, absence, and illusion. Now on view in HOLOGRAPHIC SELVES, an exhibition exploring how AI unsettles identity, part of @thewrong.biennale . 🔗 Link in bio #digitalart #exhibition #contemporaryart #AIart #photography

A highlight of my year was presenting my work at the 10th annual SOUND/IMAGE Festival at the University of Greenwich and meeting so many thoughtful composers, artists, and researchers. Thanks so much to the incredible efforts of @andrewknighthill and his colleagues at @soundimage_research for planning such an awesome gathering!

Ryoji Ikeda’s Data-Cosm [N° 1] @180.studios in London.

@_ifuseekamy__ “Cursors, Arrows, Spears, or Blades?” conflates the violence of ancient physical and current digital tools in a super interesting way in #ElectronicCurrents. #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #ArtInstallation #TimeBasedArt #ExperimentalArt #ArtAndTechnology #MovingImageArt #ArtExhibition #ExpandedMedia.

“Tears for Lost Frequencies” by Senem Pirler and Monica Duncan highlights plastic as a matter that cannot be separated from the “natural” in #ElectronicCurrents @umartdept . #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #ArtInstallation #TimeBasedArt #ExperimentalArt #ArtAndTechnology #MovingImageArt #ArtExhibition #ExpandedMedia

@dom_barra ”Liquid Dream” from the DXM series @umartdept in Gallery 130. #ElectronicCurrents #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #ArtInstallation #TimeBasedArt #ExperimentalArt #ArtAndTechnology #MovingImageArt #ArtExhibition #ExpandedMedia.

Vibeke Bertelsen’s “Soma” in #ElectronicCurrents at Gallery 130. Open in Gallery 130 from 10:30am-5:00pm for the next two weeks @umartdept . #ContemporaryArt #VideoArt #NewMediaArt #DigitalArt #ArtInstallation #TimeBasedArt #ExperimentalArt #ArtAndTechnology #MovingImageArt #ArtExhibition #ExpandedMedia