Dr Fiona Hillary is the Deputy Co-ordinator for the Higher Degree by Research Program, Program Manager for Making Art Public and Regenerative Futures Research Fellow for the School of Art. She is Co-curator of the Australian Posthuman Summer Laboratory, a Plentary Civics Initiative with Professor Rosi Braidotti, Professor N’Arweet Carolyn Briggs and Associate Professor Troy Innocent. As a Melbourne-based artist working in the public realm, Fiona’s passion lies in site-specific practices and the human/non-human/more-than-human relationships that reveal themselves across time. Working at the intersection of art, science and technology, her work explores scale through publicly shared moments of awe and wonder to more personal and intimate encounters. She asks us to consider who and what we are in the process of becoming. Working with site, neon, sound, human and non-human kin, her work focuses on temporary, fleeting encounters in and of the everyday. Fiona is entangled in posthuman, feminist, new materialist thinking. Fiona has made and curated permanent, temporary, collaborative, and performative works for a range of commissioning organisations. Her recent work is ‘Reverberating Futures’, a 360-degree film and sound work that was first presented for Treatment III, Public Art Commission, Western Treatment Plant, Werribee, Victoria, 2022.
She sits on the Curatorial Advisory Committee for the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. She is a member of the Algae Society, a global collective of interdisciplinary researchers.