This practice-based PhD project is developing a methodology of new media art making specifically using the praxis of hydrofeminist world-ing, in order to explore the impact of transmedia storytelling and collective making on creating cultural change about the climate crisis using emerging technologies. An original methodology of hydro-feminist, posthuman worldbuilding is developed, in addition to a body of new media work. This approach links the flows of migrants and goods across waterways and geographical areas, with flows of water, data and creative energies, as a part of a broad agential assemblage that hydrofeminism figures connected in essence.
Hydrofeminism is a term coined by Astrida Neimanis in her book Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water. It refers to the intersection of feminism and the materiality of water, and how water can be used as a metaphor for understanding and reimagining gendered power relations. Neimanis argues that water can be seen as a site of potential transformation, as it is constantly changing and adapting to its environment. Our fluid and porous relationships with our environment beyond dualisms is also discussed within Donna Haraway’s take on the term world-ing in which she implies becoming with the world rather than designing it. Bringing those concepts together, hydrofeminist world-ing is investigated and exercised as a creative methodology of new media art connecting art, technology, science and philosophy.
My current state in this artistic praxis of speculative mythology and technology of an ocean-based culture can be seen at https://www.buketyenidogan.com/
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