In this talk, Kira Xonorika traces how artificial intelligence becomes a site for cosmotechnical re-imagination, moving beyond extractive models of computation to propose AI as a medium for ancestral knowledge, pluriversal world-building, and planetary intelligence. Drawing from their work across film, robotics, textiles, and speculative theory, Kira examines how machine learning can be re-oriented toward Indigenous temporalities, queer embodiment, and collective futures.
Kira Xonorika is an artist, author, and futurist based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles), working across AI, film, robotics, fashion, sculpture, and performance. Her work explores the connections between technoscience, interspecies and planetary intelligence, worldbuilding, Indigenous sovereignty, and ecology. She has received awards, residencies, and fellowships from Akademie der Künste, Dreaming Beyond AI, Momus and Eyebeam, Hyundai Artlab, and Ars Electronica. Her work has been widely exhibited across the Americas, Asia, and Europe, at institutions such as the Ford Foundation Gallery, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Honor Fraser Gallery, Vellum LA, MASS MoCA, arebyte London, and the Mercosur Biennial. Publishing credits include e-flux, Momus, C Magazine, and ArtReview (forthcoming). In 2024, she spearheaded Future Memory Lab, South America's first GenAI art residency, with support from the Swiss Arts Council. Collaborations with notable artists include Jeffrey Gibson and Cai Guo-Qiang.
Artist talk, 3.12.2025, 2 pm