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- Thursday, March 12, 5:30 to 7:00 PM<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Registration requested<\/a>, 2400 East Kenwood Boulevard, Milwaukee, WI, Room 120<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Free and open to the public; reception to follow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nJoin the Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) for an artist talk with Kite<\/a> (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite); part of C21’s Aesthetics, Art, & AI program series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kite is an Ogl\u00e1la Lak\u021f\u00f3ta artist, composer, and scholar. Her groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kite has been included in numerous publications such as Atlas of Anomalous AI, Indigenous Futurisms, Creative AI Database from Serpentine Gallery, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, \u201cMaking Kin with Machines\u201d, and the sculpture \u00cdnyan Iy\u00e9 (Telling Rock) (2019) was featured on the cover of Canadian Art. Kite was the Global Coordinator for the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Workshops supported by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, resulting in the publication of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence Position Paper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Her artworks and performances have recently been featured at the 2024 Whitney Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York; and the 2024 Shanghai Biennial; among other venues. Her awards and honors include a Ruth Award, a 2023 United States Artist Fellowship, a Creative Time open call commission (with Alisha Wormsley), and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently Director of Wihanble S\u2019a Lab, Distinguished Artist in Residence, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, and received her PhD from Concordia University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kite\u2019s work will also be on display in the exhibition, This Side of the Stars<\/em>, at the Haggerty Museum of Art<\/a> in Milwaukee, WI from January 23 \u2013 May 16, 2026. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Q&A and reception with light refreshments to follow talk. Registration requested<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Paid parking is available at the Student Union Parking Garage (Lot 22). \n
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- Time-limited street parking is available on neighborhood streets surrounding campus.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- If using the Union Parking Garage, you can find the Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL) by taking the Peck School of the Arts stairways to exit.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- ACL 120 is located across the covered walkway from the 51ÁÔÆæ Mainstage Theater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Check parking availability with the 51ÁÔÆæ Parking Finder<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Use our campus map to find the Union Parking Garage (Lot 22)<\/a> or Arts Center Lecture Hall (ACL)<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAbout Aesthetics, Art, & AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
With support from the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes<\/a> (CHCI), the Center for 21st<\/sup> Century Studies and the Center for the Humanities<\/a> at UW-Madison present a collaborative series of public programming that focuses the relationship between AI and artistic practice, exploring how AI-generated aesthetics reshape creative production, authorship, and interpretation. By engaging scholars, artists, and technologists, we examine the ethical and aesthetic implications of computational creativity, raising fundamental questions about artistic agency, originality, and the boundaries between human and machine-generated cultural production. <\/p>\n\n\n
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