Oglála Lakȟóta artist Kite hosts a conversation as a moment for reflection with artistic and research collaborators on her year-long VLC-supported project Hél čhaŋkú kiŋ ȟpáye (There lies the road). This exchange involves Indigenous and non-Indigenous thinkers, artists, and the general public in exploring notions of ethics, protocols, and artificial intelligence. As does Kite’s project, the panel engages with questions of how respect and reciprocity with the nonhuman, such as in Lakȟóta ontology, can inform art and world-making in a “Good Way.”

Speakers:
Suzanne Kite, Oglála Lakȟóta artist; 
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Anishinaabe artist; 
Clementine Bourdeaux, Sičáŋǧu Oglála Lakóta Doctoral Candidate in the World Arts and Cultures Department, UCLA; 
Jason Edward Lewis, Hawaiian and Samoan digital media theorist; University Research Chair, Concordia University, Montreal

This panel is presented as part of the two-day symposium As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together. Please register for each session/day on the individual page:

As for Protocols–To Hold Things Together: Day One

As for Protocols–To Hold Things Together: Day Two

This event features American Sign Language interpretation and live captioning.

As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together is the concluding event of the first year of the Vera List Center’s program cycle As for Protocols, and is curated by BAK and presented and hosted by the VLC. BAK and the VLC act as coalitional partners here, with the long-term goal of more closely aligning their support of developing political imaginaries through artistic practice.

The VLC’s participation is made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Kettering Fund, the Selma Yomtov Schwartz Endowment, and the Sigrid Rausing Trust, as well as the members of the Vera List Center Board.