Better Off Alone, 2018

Written By Kite .

Description

Better Off Alone, Kite, Installation, Projector, Computer System, Keyboard, 2018. 

Better Off Alone is an installation work and permanent chatroom which uses Blu Mar Ten's sample pack ``jungle jungle`` to sonify a chatroom. Displayed on the wall are the artist's collection of YMCA Indian Princesses, Pocahontas, and rave memorabilia. This is an installation for a projector, a computer with special software, and a public chatroom. In this documentation, you are seeing what happens when people in the installation type on the computer. Typing in the chatroom is sonified and the artist and anyone who wants to chat can join remotely.

Previous Showings:

Interaccess Gallery: Loner Culture, featuring Thirza Cuthand, Kite, and Fallon Simard. Curator Lindsay Nixon. Sep 14 - Oct 27, 2018. Toronto, Ontario

Exhibition Text: Loner Culture, curated by Lindsay Nixon @ Interaccess Gallery

BANFF Digital Summit: Arts, Culture, and Digital Transformation Summit, November 22-24, 2019. Banff, Alberta.

Digital Anti-Matter Anti-Manifesto, a programming intervention by gijiit. ACE Arts, Summer 2021, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

“Technology in Art, an Art House show,” Lost in America Gallery,  February 5 - 20, 2022, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Reviews/ Reviews:

“Loner Culture 2.0- Better Off Alone - Kite.” Now Toronto. 16 April 2021. Link

Kite .

Kite (Dr. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition,and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Recently, Kite has been developing body interfaces for machine learning driven performance and sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Kite has published in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis. Kite is currently a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2022-2023 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. Kite is currently Distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College and a Research Associate and Residency Coordinator for the Abundant Intelligences (Indigenous AI) project.

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