Please join Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta), Dr. Clementine Bordeaux (Sičáŋǧu Lakótapi), and Dr. Laura Harjo (Mvskoke) for an on-campus presentation about Indigenous AI as it relates to contemporary art, ethics, and community. Kite will also discuss her current exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Kite and Wíhaŋble S’a Center: Dreaming with AI. Kite is a visual artist, performance artist, composer, and scholar. She is the Director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College.

Co-hosted by the Library, Computer Science department, and Office of Institutional Research.

Kite

Kite (Oglála Lakȟóta) is a performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California, with a BFA from CalArts in music composition, an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School, and a PhD in Fine Arts from Concordia University, Montreal. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakȟóta ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. She has published the award-winning article “Making Kin with Machines in The Journal of Design and Science” (MIT Press). Kite is a 2023 Creative Capital Award Winner, 2023 USA Fellow, and a 2022–2023 Creative Time Open Call artist with Alisha B. Wormsley. She is Director of Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard.

Dr. Clementine Bordeaux

Dr. Clementine Bordeaux (Sičáŋǧu Lakótapi [Rosebud Sioux Tribe]) grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Bordeaux received a bachelor’s degree in Theatre and Communication from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a master’s degree in communication from the University of Washington, Seattle, in the Native Voice Indigenous Documentary Film Program, and PhD in Culture and Performance from UCLA. Bordeaux worked for six years as the Academic Coordinator for the American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA before starting doctoral work. As staff at UCLA, Bordeaux informally supported numerous student support programs and created a Native American Staff Association. As a graduate student representative, Bordeaux served as a student representative for various departmental committees. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UC Riverside and IAIA adjunct faculty.

Dr. Laura Harjo

Dr. Laura Harjo (Mvskoke) is a scholar and an associate professor teaching Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminism. She earned her PhD at the University of Southern California in geography while also tracking through the American Studies and Ethnicity doctoral program, and her scholarly inquiry is at the intersection of geography and critical ethnic studies with “community” as an analytic focus. Harjo’s research and teaching centers on three areas: imbuing complexity to Indigenous space and place; Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence; and community-based knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press, 2019), which employs Mvskoke epistemologies and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. Prior to joining OU, she taught at the University of New Mexico for eight years in Community and Regional Planning, where she participated in foundation-building work for the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute and the Indigenous Planning concentration. She has served as a civil rights research fellow with the Advancement Project in Washington, DC. There, she worked in an attorney and researcher partnership with civil rights expert Donita Judge, Esq., and researched and spatially analyzed civil rights issues in Florida, Texas, and New Orleans related to voter protection, inclusive community development, and the prison industrial complex-school-to-prison pipeline. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Indian Land Tenure Foundation.