fields harrington is a part-time Fine Arts faculty member at Parsons The New School for Design. His practice interrogates the historical entanglements of scientific inquiry and racial capitalism, tracing how the financial logic of slavery has informed the development of epistemologies and institutional practices that continue to structure systems of oppression. By reconfiguring preexisting objects and images, particularly industrial and scientific materials, harrington constructs new material languages that challenge dominant narratives and open space for critical reinterpretation.

He holds a BFA from the University of North Texas and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. He studied at San Antonio Community College and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at David Salkin Gallery, KAJE, Petrine, and Y2K Group, and included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Parsons School of Design, and Automat Gallery. He was a L.A.B. researcher-in-residence at The Kitchen in collaboration with the School for Poetic Computation and participated in the research residency Site to be Seen at RAIR.

As a GIDEST Fellow, harrington will develop Indefatigable: Labor, Lithium, and the Price of Progress, a research project that examines the entanglements of material extraction, labor, and technological mediation by exploring the infrastructures that sustain digital economies. Focusing on the global convergence of labor and resource extraction, the project traces a throughline from lithium miners in the Atacama Desert, China, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to app-based delivery workers navigating New York City on e-bikes powered by lithium-ion batteries. These workers, often migrants or from the Global South, are subjected to exploitative conditions under platform capitalism, reduced to data points by algorithmic governance. At the other end of the supply chain, Indigenous communities are displaced and ecosystems are devastated to meet the growing demand for lithium, often hailed as the engine of green technology. Indefatigable draws from personal encounters, archival research, and media analysis to map the intersecting terrains of extraction and labor. Though largely hidden, these processes reveal the enduring logic of colonialism and capital accumulation that persists within what are often framed as new economies.