Kite aka Suzanne Kite Ph.D. is an award winning Oglála Lak?óta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic raised in Southern California. Known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface, Kite holds a B.F.A. from CalArts in music composition and a M.F.A. from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School. Kite earned a Ph.D. in the Individualized Program at Concordia University for her dissertation, sound and video work, and interactive installation Hél cha?kú ki? ?páye (There lies the road).
Discussions of technology often revolve around a loose notion of a future-orientated “innovation,” with little disregard about the nature of those imagined futures. This series aims to add a little friction to these sleek ideas about innovative technologies, by providing a platform to discuss the complexities of living in an increasingly technological world. The series showcases experts whose work intersects research methodologies and the creative process and technology. Each featured speaker will deliver a lecture and provide a brief demonstration of their process. Whether they are a research-based creator or a researcher who makes, these speakers do not approach technology as a definitive answer but as a question: How does technology reflect the issues, inequities and injustices in our society and what is there to be done about it?