Biography


Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates experiences that spark dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories.  Her work in AI and other mediums uses emerging technologies and social collaboration to work toward technological ecosystems based on care and social equity. Dinkins' experiences with and explorations of artificial intelligence have led to a deep interest in how algorithmic systems impact communities of color in particular and all of our futures more generally.   
 
Dinkins' experiments with AI have led full circle to recognize the stories, myths, and cultural perspectives, aka data, that we hold and share form and inform society and have done so for millennia. She has concluded that our stories are our algorithms. We must value, grow, respect, and collaborate with each other's stories (data) to build care and broadly compassionate values into the technological ecosystems that increasingly support our future.

Dinkins teaches at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. Dinkins earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art 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. Dinkins is a 2021 United States Artist Fellow and Knight Arts & Tech Fellow. Previous fellowships, residencies and support include the Artist Fellow of the Berggruen Institute and Lucas Artists Fellow in Visual Arts at Montalvo Art Center, CA, Onassis Foundation, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Creative Capital, Soros Equality Fellowship, Data and Society Research Institute Fellowship,  Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Eyebeam, Pioneer Works Tech Lab, NEW INC, Blue Mountain Center; The Laundromat Project; Santa Fe Art Institute and Art/Omi.
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 The New York Times featured Dinkins in its pages as an AI influencer.  Wired, Art In America, Artsy,  Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, Wilson Quarterly, and a host of popular podcasts have recently highlighted Dinkins' art and ideas.

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Fellowships , ​Residencies & Awards 

Recent  Exhibitions &  Projects 

  • On Love & Data, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor August - October 2021 
  • Complementary, OPEN Source Gallery, Brooklyn NY, October - November 2020  
  • Secret Garden,  Webxr and  installation presented by New Inc & Nokia Bell Labs.  Official Sundance selection. 
  • ​Feminist Data Visualization, Atlanta Contemporary,  June 2021 - Sept 2021
  • Design for Different Futures, Walker Art Center ,  September 2020 - April 2021 
  • Uncanny Valley,  DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA,  February 22  –  April 25, 2021
  • Virtual Beings, Transfer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,  January - February 2020
  • In Real Life,  Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, January 16 – Mar 22, 2020
  • The Question of Intelligence, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY, Feb 7 - April 8, 2020 

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