Three Diffractions of LA, 2020

Written By Kite .

Three Diffractions of LA, video and composition, 2020.

Description:

Kite, aka Suzanne Kite, offers an intimate personal essay and audio/video triptych that weaves a speculative narrative across eras and locations in Los Angeles and the history of the U.S. "Three Diffractions of LA" sees the Indian Relocation Act, the formation of the LAPD, the DTLA rave scene, and the disappearance of relatives through a metonymic kaleidoscope, a collapsing neutron star. Her publication is part dream, part lullaby, part drone, and situates reality as something stretched beyond that which we can see at the horizon.

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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