Hat Fidkin
Hat Fidkin’s research-based practice explores the entanglement of metaphysics, postfeminism and transhumanist perspectives through both organic and technological developments in both the present and imagined universes. Drawing on their theory of ‘science fiction as science fact’, their meditations on our existence and what lies beyond it are questioned through the mycelial practice of modular synthesis, video works, speculative prose and the experimental essay. Conversations surrounding consciousness expansion, alchemy and symbiosis are encouraged, looking towards alternative, more optimistic futures.
They presented their research from their dissertation at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, after achieving 90% for exceptional work.
In the future Fidkin
womb expanded
2021. Shot on Super 8mm colour reversal film, 4 mins 28 secs. Queer souls are seeded on Uranus. This film explores our time spent on the gas giant before journeying to Earth for our second gestation.
tintinnabulum
2020. Digital video in 4K. Camera- Hannah Suharto, Directed by Harriet Fidkin. 6 mins 45 secs. tintinnabulum is an imagined world; maybe it exists on the edge of a forest, or perhaps outside of our solar system.
double infinity (demo)
2021. VCV eurorack simulator (modular synthesiser). 4 mins 55 secs.
Matter Poetics, Melange and the Lichenised Posthuman
2020, Experimental Essay. How Artists and Writers Present Visions of an Interconnected Life Between Man and Non-Human Others in the Age of the Anthropocene.
Deuteromycetes
2020. AVC text.
a wave, diffracted. a womb, expanded.
2021. How I wired my virtual modular synthesiser to produce original soundtrack for my super 8 video 'womb expanded'.