Community/Nation/Tribe: Enrolled member, Oglala Sioux Tribe
Materials/Processes: AI; Performance; Installation; Video
Themes: Ethical AI; Contemporary Lakota mythologies and epistemologies; Human/non-human relationships; Reciprocity; Survivance
Online Resources:
- https://www.kitekitekitekite.com/
- https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/lewis-arista-pechawis-kite/release/1
- https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper/
Statement/Bio in Artist’s Words:
Kite aka Dr. Suzanne Kite is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School.
Known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface, Kite’s groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members.
Kite’s artwork and performance has been included in numerous exhibitions, recently Hammer Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Plug In Contemporary, PS122 and the Vera List Center, Anthology Film Archives, Walter Phillips Gallery, Chronus Art Center, Toronto Biennial, and Experimenta Triennial. Kite was a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, a 2020 Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow, a 2020 “100 Women in AI Ethics”, a 2021 Common Fields Fellow.
Kite is currently a United States Artist Fellow 2023, a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist for the Black and Indigenous Dreaming Workshops with Alisha B. Wormsley, and a 2023 Creative Capital Awardee.
Kite is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab, Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College. She is a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.
Kite is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
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