Kira Xonorika is a 2025–2027 VLC Fellow whose fellowship project, Entangled Cosmotechnics, is part of the Vera List Center’s Focus Theme cycle Matter of Intelligence.

Entangled Cosmotechnics explores the entangled thresholds of human and nonhuman intelligence, from AI and robotics to Indigenous epistemologies and queer semiotics of alienness. Drawing from histories of contact, cognitive hierarchies, and creative resistance, their work reimagines intelligence as relational, transtemporal, and symbiotic. Through interdisciplinary inquiry and approaches spanning film, performance, textile, dance, regalia, and robotics, the project explores Two-Spirit traditions and envisions a multispecies, multi-agent future beyond domination.

Kira Xonorika is an interdisciplinary artist and author based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles, California), working across generative AI, film, robotics, fashion, sculpture, performance, and text. Xonorika’s work explores the connections between technoscience, interspecies and planetary intelligence, worldbuilding, Indigenous sovereignty, and ecology. She has received awards, residencies, and fellowships from the 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 Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, Honor Fraser Gallery, MASS MoCA, arebyte London, and the Mercosur Biennial. Publishing credits include e-flux, Momus, C Magazine, and Hyundai Artlab. In 2024, she spearheaded Future Memory Lab, South America’s first GenAI art residency, with support from the Swiss Arts Council.