For KITE, stones are a method for recording time, a way to link the cyclical nature of indigenous Lakȟóta cultures, and a way to geometrically record dreams. Her score-sculptures often take circular mandala-like forms and are collected from the pebbles and rocks found locally, here in Hamburg, in the Stadtpark, the harbour, and at the town beaches. Their constellation reflects the stars, both the very ancient and the very contemporary way of reading the sky, the circular nature of human existence, and the understanding of the universe where men are not at the centre, but orbit and coexist together with oceans and rocks, animals, or mountains. The sculpture is also inspired by the artist’s own dreams, as an "ancestral technology" connecting the earthly and the metaphysical realms, the conscious and unconscious, the archaic and the computational.

The core of KITE’s practice also focuses on how Lakȟóta philosophies can influence artificial intelligence, and how to create an ethical and just computational media. Her research investigates how AI technologies and machine learning systems might integrate Indigenous knowledge towards a better and less exploitative and predatory system of human communication and data use.


KITE aka Dr. Suzanne Kite (b. 1990) lives and works in Ma’eekanik koomhina (Hudson Valley), and is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance and visual artist, composer, scholar, and Director of the Wihanble S'a Center at Bard College, US.

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