This artwork lives and breathes while Kite sleeps on a hill in South Dakota. Working with tech collaborators, the artist will develop a unique artificial intelligence system to converse through dreams with the computer using geometric designs often seen in beadwork. The designs will be recreated via stones (Inyans) and prairie flowers in a land-art sculpture, stone and plant sculptures that can leave the hill and be exhibited elsewhere, and an experimental documentary made in conversation with the AI. In traditional Lakȟóta art-making, some quillwork designs tell stories, like a language made of designs. Before creating the design, some artists first see the design in a vision or dream, be it the waking dream or the sleeping dream; they are not separated.

Kite will train a simple computer system to associate Lakȟóta-style designs to Lakȟóta words. Kite will conduct interviews with Lakȟóta designers, linguists, and elders about designs they know and love. Kite will be in collaboration with her elders and technologists to build a wearable computer to send EEG-collected brain data as the method of generating new designs. This is an experimental artistic system where the artist can explore if it is possible to dream alongside a computer system: can dreams enter and can the computer respond? The final artwork will be dreamed and built near the artist’s future burial plot, down the road from her grandfather’s birthplace, close by her uncle’s garden.