Biography

Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates platforms for dialog about artificial intelligence (AI) as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more inclusive, fair and ethical artificial intelligent ecosystems. Dinkins’ art practice employs lens-based practices, emerging technologies and community engagement to confront questions of bias in AI, consciousness, data sovereignty and social equity.  Investigations into the contradictory histories, traditions, knowledge bases and philosophies that form/in-form society at large underpin her thought and art production.

Dinkins earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997 and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.  She exhibits and publicly advocates for inclusive AI internationally at a broad spectrum of community, private and institutional venues – by design. Dinkins is a 2019 Creative Capital Grantee as well as a 2018/19 Soros Equality Fellow,  Data and Society Research Institute Fellow and 2018 Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow.  Past residencies include Eyebeam, Pioneer Works Tech Lab, NEW INC, Blue Mountain Center; The Laundromat Project; Santa Fe Art Institute and Art/Omi.

The New York Times recently featured Dinkins in its pages as an AI influencer.  Apple Inc recognized Dinkins’ research and community-centered efforts by featuring her as a local hero in their “Behind the Mac” ad campaign (Brooklyn, NY edition).  Wired, Art In America, Artsy,  Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, Wilson Quarterly and a host of popular podcasts have recently highlighted Dinkins' art and ideas.

Fellowships , ​Residencies & Awards 

  • Artist in Residence, Nokia Bell Labs / E.A.T. Residency Member, NEW INC. (2018/19)
  • Soros Equality Fellowship,  Open Society Foundations, NY, NY. (2018 - 2020)
  • Data & Society Fellowship, Data & Society Research Institute, NY, NY.  (2019)
  • Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab Fellow, Sundance Institute,  Sundance, Utah (May 2018)
  • Trust Residency, EYEBEAM Brooklyn, NY – year-long residency funded 2017/18
  • Pioneer Works Technology Residency, Brooklyn, NY,  2018
  • A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art, 2017
  • Artist in Residence, Assembly Recess Art, Brooklyn NY  Fall 2017
  • Residency, Santa Fe Institute for the Arts, Equal Justice Residency, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2017
  • Artist in Residence, NEW INC, an art, technology and design incubator run by the New Museum, (supported) 2016
  • Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center,  Blue Mountain Lake, NY (2014)​

Recent  Exhibitions & Projects 

  • ​Out of Body,  Bitforms Gallery,  New York, NY (late October - December 2018)
  • Paradox: The Body in the Age of AI, Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Pa. (Oct 5 - Feb 3, 2019) 
  • Have We Met? Memory and Desire in the Age of the Internet,  Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan (September 20 - November 18, 2018 )
  • Moving Visuals, David C Driskell Center, University of Maryland, (Fall 2018)
  • Clustering, Artificial Knowing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 
  • Multiply, Identify, Her, International Center of Photography, May 25 - September 2, 2018
  • Making a New Reality: Emerging Media Exhibition, Ford Foundation, New York, NY (June 2018)

Other Involvements 

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