Kite (Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from California Institute of the Arts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School and a PhD in fine arts from Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite has published in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press, 2018) with the award winning article “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista and Archer Pechawis. Kite was a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow and a 2022–23 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. Kite is currently director of Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI, Distinguished Artist in Residence and assistant professor of American and Indigenous studies, Bard College. She is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
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