Human Machine Fellowship 2024
Kira Xonorika
*1995 in Asunción, Paraguay
Lives in Los Angeles, USA
Vita
Kira Xonorika is an artist, author, and futurist whose work explores technoscience, sovereignty, temporality, world-building, ecology, and magic. Her awards, residencies and fellowships include Hyundai Artlab, Dreaming Beyond AI, Momus, Eyebeam, Salzburg Global Seminar, and Ars Electronica. Her writing has been published by e-flux, C magazine, and Cambridge University. Exhibitions include the Ford Foundation Gallery, arebyte, and Honor Fraser Gallery, the Roy and Edna Disney CALARTS theater. She’s the founder and curator of South America’s first residency exploring AI, the "Future Memory Lab."
Residency
During the residency, Xonorika will expand on the film "Deep Time Dance", which explores macrocosmic connections, speculative terraformation, and dance. The film generates worldbuilding informed by Guaraní cosmology and Two-Spirit Indigenous Futurism, centering on joy, pleasure, and movement. The artist will also create a sculpture in dialogue with the film. These works explore the potential of AI to cultivate ancestral intuition as a form of re-Indigenization, revitalizing worlds, somatic knowledge systems, and, in turn, regenerating symbolic memory, spirituality, and techno-science.