Synthetic Fever is a solo exhibition by Xingyu Huang, organized by KehTing. Bringing together the moving-image works Sensing the More-than-Human: Emotional Landscape of Symbiosis and They Name the Sky After Stone, the exhibition examines environments shaped and sustained through maintenance, intervention, and technological mediation. Moving between microbial symbiosis under rising ocean temperatures and the material history of an abandoned paper mill, Huang considers how ecological processes are translated into data, image, and sound, and how systems of information remain entangled with material infrastructures and biological life. Presented within the domestic setting of alt projects, the works foreground forms of dependency, extraction, and maintenance that often remain imperceptible because they are embedded in everyday life.

Xingyu Huang is an interdisciplinary artist who frequently works with scientists to explore the inevitable feedback loop between human infrastructure and ecological survival. Her practice spans sculpture, architecture, digital media, and research-based installations that construct responsive environments where living organisms, sensors, and sound coalesce.

Her recent projects have engaged with Embodied Cognition and Metabolic Entanglement. Huang’s work has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center, University of Chicago, Zhou B Art Center, 4C Gallery, and SAIC Galleries. In 2025, she contributed to a collaborative project featured in the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She was the winner of the Art of Progress Prize (dsm-firmenich, 2026), with an international jury including the director of the Swiss Institute New York and jury members of the Turner Prize and Venice Biennale. She received the Arts, Science + Culture Initiative Grant from the University of Chicago and was nominated for the AICAD Teaching Fellowship. She holds an MFA from SAIC in Studio Art and a BFA from the University of Edinburgh in architecture.