Tufts University Art Galleries presents an opening reception for the exhibit “Harry Dodge: Works of Love,” which will include a reading by Dodge.

The exhibition features a selection of recent sculptures, drawings, and videos that revel as much in theoretical ideas about a posthuman future as they do in the ecstasy of the workaday present. Dodge’s riotous, precarious (and often funny) creations suggest unwieldiness—states fluctuating between analog and digital, alien and earthly, material and virtual, me and you.

These “works of love” reflect Dodge’s evolving interest in the fast-moving, ethically charged field of robotics and machine intelligence as it interweaves with questions of desirous matter and intersubjectivity, or what French poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant called “consenting not to be a single being.” A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, Harry Dodge is permanent faculty of the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts, Program in Art.

The exhibition, first presented in part at JOAN, Los Angeles, in 2018, will be on view in Medford from January 17 through April 14.