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Stephanie Dinkins: Tuesday, February 6, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation services.
Join us in person for a lecture by artist Stephanie Dinkins followed by an audience Q&A.
Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in AI,” the inaugural recipient of the LG Guggenheim Award for artists working at the intersection of art and technology, a Creative Time R&D Fellow, and a Schmidt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellow in 2023, Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist who creates projects that foster dialog about race, gender, aging, and our future histories. Her art practice centers emerging technologies, documentary practices, and social collaboration working toward technological ecosystems based on care and social equity.
Dinkins teaches at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art. She exhibits and publicly advocates systems of care and generosity internationally. Wired, Art In America, Artsy, Art21, Hyperallergic, the BBC, the New York Times, Right Click Save, and a host of popular podcasts and online publications have highlighted Dinkins's art and ideas.
Image credit: Stephanie Dinkins.
‘An Echo Chamber of This World’s Order’
Min Chen | artnet | December 21, 2023
Stephanie Dinkins finds the edges of identity and AI
Jayne O’Dwyer | Document Journal | November 3, 2023
Professor Stephanie Dinkins Named a TIME 100 AI Innovator
Ankita Nagpal | Stony Brook University News | October 30, 2023
Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History*
Zachary Small | The New York Times | July 4, 2023
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Pioneering AI artist wins inaugural $100,000 award from New York's Guggenheim and LG
Torey Akers | The Art Newspaper | May 18, 2023
Stephanie Dinkins: Building Something Now
Joey Orr | Art Papers | May 2023
Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
Marcus Civin | Brooklyn Rail | April 2022
Artist Stephanie Dinkins discusses race, gender and digital inequalities
Shraddha Nair | STIRworld | July 31, 2021
Stephanie Dinkins Documents the Past to Create a Better Future
Robert Emproto | Stony Brook University News | February 19, 2021
¿Human ÷ (Automation + Culture) = Partner?*
Stephanie Dinkins | ASAP/Journal, vo. 4 (2) | p. 294-297 | May 2019
*This is a library resource that requires ARTIC login
Stephanie Dinkins on “Afro-now-ism”
e-flux Podcasts | October 6, 2020 | Please note this podcast does not provide transcripts
Full Pro-topia
Informer [Podcast] | Please note this podcast does not provide transcripts
Stephanie Dinkins by
Stephanie Dinkins is renowned for her critical investigations into artificial intelligence and machine learning systems as they intersect race, gender, and our future histories. By using her training in documentary practices as a photo-based artist, she creates inclusive platforms for dialogue and action toward building technological ecosystems and datasets that are equitable, accessible, and transparent. Her immersive installations, community-based workshops, and public talks seek audience participation and engagement in a way that pushes the boundaries of new media and socially engaged art practices in the 21st century. Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data brings together nationally renowned curators and theorists who draw from methodologies of art criticism, social practice, new media theory, and critical studies to offer an in-depth analysis of key installations in Dinkins's survey exhibition. The book also includes an important essay by Stephanie Dinkins on her concept of Afro-now-ism in which she expands on her theoretical framework and positionality as a Black new media artist in the 21st century. Dinkins's artistic research transcends the boundaries of visual art to challenge and expose the bias and inequities of caste, race, and gender, which are encoded within digital systems on which governance, healthcare, and security infrastructures in the United States are based.
Plants by Numbers: Art, Computation, and Queer Feminist Technoscience by 
Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media for Equity and Justice by
Conversations with Bina48: 7, 6, 5, 2
In these four videos, we see the artist Stephanie Dinkins (she/her/hers) conversing with a humanoid cyborg called Bina48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture, 48 exaFLOPS per second) in Conversations with Bina48: 7, 6, 5, 2, 2014–present (ongoing).
Conversations with Not the Only One
Stephanie Dinkins in conversation with Not The Only One (March 2021) the multigenerational, voice interactive AI entity designed, trained, and aligned with the concerns and ideals of her Black American family.
Visiting Artists Program Lecture Recordings from the Archive
SAIC Visiting Artists Program video and audio lecture recordings (1977–present.) Available with SAIC login credentials.
SAIC Digital Collections: Visiting Artists Program
SAIC Visiting Artists Program publicity archive and audio recordings (1977–98).