About the Artist
Devin Ronneberg is a multidisciplinary artist born, raised, and living in Los Angeles, working primarily in sculpture, sound, image-making, networking, engineering, and computational media, his work is currently focused on the unseen implications of emergent technologies and artificial intelligence, information control and collection, and the radiation of invisible forces. Incorporating aerospace engineering techniques as the basis for his sculptural practice, his work explores the possibilities of modern manufacturing and materialities with techniques and materials used in the design and prototyping of hand-built experimental aircraft.
Ronneberg’s work has most recently been exhibited at the Experimenta 2021 Triennial, EFA Project Space, MoCNA, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and was recently chosen to be a Sundance New Frontier Story Lab Fellow and MacArthur Project Grant recipient. Ronneberg co-founded the Los Angeles based imprint Private Selection Records, and produces, djs, and performs live as Aerial. He holds a BFA in Music Technology: Intelligence, Interaction, and Design from California Institute of the Arts and is an experimental aircraft designer / builder at Berkut Engineering.
https://www.devinronneberg.net/
Kite (a.k.a. Suzanne Kite) is an Oglála Lakȟóta 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 is a PhD candidate at Concordia University. Kite’s scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Recently, Kite has been developing a body interface for movement performances, carbon fibre sculptures, immersive video and sound installations, as well as co-running the experimental electronic imprint, Unheard Records. Kite has also published in several journals and magazines, including in The Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), where the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines,” co-authored with Jason Lewis, Noelani Arista, and Archer Pechawis, was featured. Currently, she is a 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar, a 2020 Tulsa Artist Fellow, and a 2020 Women at Sundance×Adobe Fellow.
http://kitekitekitekite.com
Other Works
Kite and Devin Ronneberg
Seeing is Believing
Video and text
2020
Seeing is believing is another important collaboration work between artist Kite and Devin Ronneberg. Formally, this work mainly applies machine learning to processing the video. Using high-intensity experimental techniques and emerging technologies to produce animations and extract fabricated stories, they thus raise their questions and reconstruct a more realistic narrative.
https://www.devinronneberg.net/seeing%20is%20believing/
Kite
Call to Arms
Sound and Video Installation
2019
Call to Arms is an installation created by Kite and filmmaker Althea Thauberger, commissioned by the 2019 Toronto Biennial. The work features audio-visual recordings of their rehearsals with Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) York, where they performed four musical scores composed by Kite along with the band’s own repertoire.
http://kitekitekitekite.com/portfolio/items/call-to-arms/
