Kite

KITE, aka Dr. Suzanne Kite, is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite has developed body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Her art practice includes developing machine learning and compositional systems for body interface movement performances, interactive and static sculpture, immersive video and sound installations, poetry and experimental lectures, experimental video, as well as corunning the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records. 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.