2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition

VISIBLE_DEVICES, 2023. Performance, 30:00 min

Through exploring systems and their peripheral experiences, Fiel Guhit enlivens software objects to simulate and invert the ways in which innovation has distanced the human experience. His work often proposes new perspectives that reconfigure one’s orientation towards invisible structures. Relation to the dematerialized characteristics of technology is central within Guhit’s work as he uses it to guide and situate oneself within emerging non-physical worlds. Through developing experiential software, Guhit brings new animacies to human-computer interaction that break away from normalized patterns—exploring margins of “error” as margins of possibility.

Fiel Guhit (b.1986) is an artist and software engineer from Honolulu, Hawaii and based in New York City. In 2011, Guhit graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a B.S. in Informatics specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. His experience with studying how the body interfaces with technology were formative for Guhit’s interests, and has shaped the central questions of his art practice. Guhit’s process-based practice uses software, installation, and performance, and he has exhibited at Artists Space in New York City and 99 Canal Street.