Kite, an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer and scholar whose work is currently on display at the Haggerty Museum of Art, will take part in an art talk on Thursday, March 12, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Art Lecture Hall (2400 E. Kenwood Blvd.).
Kite’s work will be on view at the Haggerty through Saturday, May 16, in the exhibition “This Side of the Stars.” Register online for the event, organized by the Center for 21st Century Studies and the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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 develops body interfaces for machine-learning-driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize machine learning in art practice.
Kite has been included in numerous publications such as “Atlas of Anomalous AI,” “Indigenous Futurisms,” “Creative AI Database” from Serpentine Gallery, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal and the Journal of Design and Science with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines.” The sculpture “Ínyan Iyé, Telling Rock,” was featured on the cover of Canadian Art.
