Dr. Suzanne Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) is an artist, composer, and scholar whose work spans performance, sound, sculpture, and computational media to explore contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies, ethics, and relations with technology. She is Director of the Wíhaŋble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College—a National Endowment for the Humanities–designated Humanities Research Center and a pod of the Abundant Intelligences research program—where she serves as Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American & Indigenous Studies.
Kite’s recent presentations include the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA, New York), and the 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema; additional projects have appeared with NOME (Berlin), REDCAT (Los Angeles), and the Max Ernst Museum. Her practice includes machine-learning–informed performance interfaces, dream-derived sculptural systems, and collaborative research with family and community members.
Her writing has been published by the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press) (“Making Kin with Machines”), Atlas of Anomalous AI, Indigenous Protocol and AI Position Paper, and other venues. Honors include the Ruth Award (Ruth Foundation for the Arts), United States Artists Fellowship (2023), Creative Capital (Wild Futures), a Creative Time commission (with Alisha B. Wormsley), and fellowships with Forge Project. Kite holds degrees from the California Institute of the Arts and Bard College and earned her PhD at Concordia University. She is an enrolled citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and lives and works in Catskill, NY.