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 a distinguished Artist in Residence and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies, Bard College and director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College.

Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri (Jackson 2bears) is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia installation/ performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations and Tyendinaga, who is currently based in London. He is Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Indigenous Arts Research & Technology, Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Indigenous Studies, and Director of the Onkwehonwe Research Environment (ORE) at the University of Western Ontario. His research-creation activities focus on Indigenous land-based histories and embodied cultural knowledge, exploring creative uses of digital technologies to support the innovation, transmission, expression, and transformation of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit creative and cultural practices. His recent works focus on the impacts of changing technologies on contemporary Indigenous politics, culture, and society. He has worked extensively with/in Indigenous communities, notably the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) community in Treaty 7 territory and in his own Haudenosaunee community of Six Nations. He is co-investigator on a large-scale research project called Mootookakio’ssin, working with Dr. Leroy Little Bear and several Blackfoot knowledge-keepers to create high-resolution 3D models of sacred Niitsitapi artifacts kept in museums around the world. Two Bears’ research lab, Onkwehonwe Research Environment (ORE), supports numerous research collaborations with the Blackfoot community and community organizations in Six Nations. ORE is currently involved in a project with an Ohsweken community organization, Thru the Red Door, and MIT researchers creating virtual environments for Haudenosaunee cultural practice and language revitalization based on longhouse/community protocols. Dr. Two Bears is also the Pod Lead for the Haudenosaunee Pod.

Scott Benesiinaabandan is an Anishinaabe (Obishkkokaang) intermedia artist working in experimental image making and sonic materials. He completed his MFA in Photography at Concordia University and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His research interests focus on the intersections of artificial intelligence(s) and Anishinaabemowin. Benesiinaabandan has participated in international residencies at Parramatta Artist Studios in Australia, Context Gallery in Derry, North of Ireland, and the University of Lethbridge/Royal Institute of Technology iAIR residency, as well as international collaborative projects in the United Kingdom and Ireland. He has also completed residencies with the Initiative for Indigenous Futures and AbTec in Montreal. His work has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg Arts Council, and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and is held in a number of private, provincial, and national collections. Benesiinaabandan has taken part in notable exhibitions across Canada and internationally, including Flatter the Land/Bigger the Ruckus at Harbourfront, Subconscious City at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, GHOSTDANCE at the Ryerson Image Centre, and solo exhibitions such as unSacred at Gallery 1C03; mii omaa ayaad / Oshiki Inendemowin in Sydney, Australia; Blood Memories in Melbourne; little resistances at Platform Gallery; and Insurgence/Resurgence (2017). Most recently, he completed a public commission for the CONTACT Photography Festival in Toronto.

Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media theorist, poet, and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he conducts research/creation projects exploring computation as a creative and cultural material. Lewis is deeply committed to developing intriguing new forms of expression by working on conceptual, critical, creative and technical levels simultaneously. He is the University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary as well Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University. Lewis was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives in Montreal.