Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates experiences that spark dialog about race, gender, aging, and 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 our futures more generally.   
 
Dinkins' experiments with AI have led to the recognition of the stories, myths, and cultural perspectives (aka data), that we hold, share, and inform society, as have done so for a millennium. 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, New York, where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. Dinkins earned a Master of Fine Arts 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:
Artist Fellow of the Berggruen Institute
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.

Stephanie Dinkins is the fifth guest in the 2021-22 Master of Visual Studies (MVS) Proseminar. This year’s series is led and programmed by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan. Learn more.

Banner Image: Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden, 2021.