Suzanne Kite
Biographic Data
| ID | 948081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Kite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Kite |
| SIGNATURE | KITE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bard College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3297-1042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI
What lies in the future of AI, and who gets to define it? The paper addresses this question through “Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI” workshops that open space for imagining relational, community-grounded technologies. Considering AI models as cultural systems, we position the workshops as interventions into AI’s cultural foundations. We invite the reader into the workshop space by interweaving our positioning alongside the imagining exercise…
On Stones, Ethical Failures, and Epistemological Wormholes
This three-way conversation reflects on practice-based research and the thinking-making of artist, composer, and academic Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), in the context of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) transnational research project on sensory new media. Departing from Kite’s award-winning collaborative article ‘Making Kin with Machines,’ the sculpture Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock) and its different iterations, the…
“What’s on the earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth”
How is colonialism connected to American relationships with extraterrestrial beings? This commentary analyzes contemporary and founding US mythologies as constant, calculated attempts for settlers to obtain indigeneity in this land stemming from a fear of the “unknown.” From Columbus’s arrival to the Boston Tea Party, from alien and UFO fervor to paranormal experiences, spiritualism, New Age, and American Wicca, American mythology endlessly recre…
Against Reduction
How can we restore balance to a world now run by AI and algorithms? Contributors explore the human relationship to technology from ethical, epistemological, economic, and ecological perspectives
Fragmentary transmissions
Listener is a foray into the Indigenous future. In her performance Kite impersonates a cloaked diasporic Oglála wanderer who listens for transmissions beyond the range of the humanly audible. This article provides different frameworks with which to approach Listener. Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) will give insight into her background, introduce her art, and discuss some of the guiding questions behind it. This is followed by a dialogue with Baudemann, a …
Making Kin with the Machines
Making Kin with the Machines
Fragmentary transmissions
Listener is a foray into the Indigenous future. In her performance Kite impersonates a cloaked diasporic Oglála wanderer who listens for transmissions beyond the range of the humanly audible. This article provides different frameworks with which to approach Listener. Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) will give insight into her background, introduce her art, and discuss some of the guiding questions behind it. This is followed by a dialogue with Baudemann, a …
“What’s on the earth is in the stars; and what’s in the stars is on the earth”
How is colonialism connected to American relationships with extraterrestrial beings? This commentary analyzes contemporary and founding US mythologies as constant, calculated attempts for settlers to obtain indigeneity in this land stemming from a fear of the “unknown.” From Columbus’s arrival to the Boston Tea Party, from alien and UFO fervor to paranormal experiences, spiritualism, New Age, and American Wicca, American mythology endlessly recre…
Against Reduction
How can we restore balance to a world now run by AI and algorithms? Contributors explore the human relationship to technology from ethical, epistemological, economic, and ecological perspectives
On Stones, Ethical Failures, and Epistemological Wormholes
This three-way conversation reflects on practice-based research and the thinking-making of artist, composer, and academic Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), in the context of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) transnational research project on sensory new media. Departing from Kite’s award-winning collaborative article ‘Making Kin with Machines,’ the sculpture Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock) and its different iterations, the…
Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI
What lies in the future of AI, and who gets to define it? The paper addresses this question through “Future Imaginaries of Indigenous AI” workshops that open space for imagining relational, community-grounded technologies. Considering AI models as cultural systems, we position the workshops as interventions into AI’s cultural foundations. We invite the reader into the workshop space by interweaving our positioning alongside the imagining exercise…
Indigenous (3 works) · Active listening (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Art (1 work)