Listener by Kite at KCAI Gallery

Part of Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
On Sep 30, 2022

Kansas City, MO, USA

Kite performing Listener, recorded on September 13, 2022. 23 minutes, 40 seconds

Video credit: Videography and Post-production by Oz Overshiner. Courtesy of KCAI.

Kite
(Oglala Lakota Nation)
Sylmar, CA 1990
Currently based in Montreal, QC

Lakota-Sys (L-Sys), Listener, 2018

Digital video with stereo sound
17 min. 25 sec. (total duration)
Collection of the artist

A video is played. Lakota-Sys (L-Sys) is a visual interface which guides Listener, a science fiction story about a woman wandering alone in the future, receiving transmissions from the Far Place on her listening devices.

How can Lakota understandings affect the design of technology? What does a Lakota data-visualizing interface look like?

Kite

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.

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