Millennium Film Workshop Presents:
PERSONAL CINEMA: SUZANNE KITE

This program collects video works extracted from several of Kite’s interdisciplinary performance pieces, recontextualized alongside each other to give an impression of the unique sensibility in video art that comes as a result of her technological innovation, which is itself driven by questions of Lakȟóta ontology. Works such as L-SYS and PȞEHÍŊ KIŊ LÍLA AKHÍŠOKE (HER HAIR WAS HEAVY) utilize a computer system woven into a 50-foot braid of hair, which guides Kite’s performance and creates AI-generated sound and imagery. This interface was built and developed by the artist in collaboration with James Hurwitz and with Devin Ronneberg, who also collaborated with Kite on FEVER DREAM.

SUZANNE KITE WILL BE HERE IN PERSON TO INTRODUCE AND DISCUSS THE FILMS!

The event will take place at 
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd St.)
New York, NY 10003 USA

For more information, please visit the Anthology Film Archives website here.

Encoding Futures: Critical Imaginaries of AI assembles the work of artists who visualize the limits of our current algorithmic imaginaries, and envision speculative futures engineered for just outcomes.

Exhibiting artists include:
Algorithmic Justice League, Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Stephanie Dinkins, Aroussiak Gabrielian, Maya Ganesh, Kite, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Caroline Sinders, Astria Suparak, and Mandy Harris Williams. 

The exhibition is staged in conjunction with Encoding Futures: Speculative Monuments for LA, a 3-month virtual residency program at Oxy Arts. Over the residency period, artists Nancy Baker-Cahill, Audrey Chan, Joel Garcia with Meztli Projects and Patrick Martinez researched and developed original virtual monuments to be geo-located at sites across Los Angeles. The monuments will be accessible for the public to view through the 4th Wall app. The prompt for the residency was to conceive a blueprint for a site-specific imagined future, and consider technologically enabled transformations that might shape the future of the chosen site. The artists considered past and present social, economic, and cultural inequities, power imbalances, and other forms of subjection, with the hope of foregrounding a radically equitable future sited in an emergent present. 

Encoding Futures is co-curated by Oxy Arts and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Mellon Professor of the Practice at Occidental College. 

For more information, please visit the Oxy Arts website here.