Skip to main content

Main Sub Nav

  • Prospective Students
  • Current Students
  • Faculty/Staff
  • Alumni
  • Employers
Home
  • About
    • About The School of Art
      • About
      • History
      • Mission
      • Solidarity & Justice
      • Contact Us
      • Visit the School
    • People
      • Directory
      • Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair
      • Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures
      • Board of Advisors
      • Careers at Dodd
    • Facilities
      • Studios & Facilities
      • Art Library
      • Reserve A Space
      • The CAVE
      • Maps & Floor Plans
  • Programs
    • Undergraduate Programs
      • Overview
      • Undergraduate Admissions
      • Degree Options
      • Minors in Art & Art History
      • Studio Art Core
      • Courses
    • Graduate Programs
      • Overview
      • MA
      • MFA
      • MAEd
      • Admissions
      • PhD in Art with Emphasis in Art Education
      • PhD in Art with Emphasis in Art History
      • EdS in Art Education
      • Art Education Certificate Only Program
      • Funding & Research Support
      • Courses
    • Study Abroad & Field Study
      • Overview
      • Cortona
      • NYC Maymester Program
    • Community Programs
      • UGA Community Art School
      • UGA Summer Art Camp
      • Athens Art Book Fair
  • Events & Exhibitions
    • Speaker Series
      • Lecture Series
    • Calendars
      • Upcoming Events
      • Calendar View
      • Submit Events
      • Events Archive
    • Galleries
      • Dodd Galleries
      • Athenaeum
      • Online Exhibitions
      • Current Exhibitions
      • Upcoming Exhibitions
      • Past Exhibitions
      • Performances & Talks
      • Propose an Exhibition
  • Research
    • Programs
      • Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium
      • The Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
      • a2ru
      • Social Ecology Lab
      • UGA Arts Collaborative
      • Margie E West Award
    • Events & Galleries
      • Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures
      • Research Days
      • Dodd Galleries
      • The Athenaeum
    • Research & People
      • Lamar Dodd Professional Chair
      • Dodd Interdisciplinary Fellows
      • Graduate Research
  • News
    • All News
    • Student News
    • Graduate News
    • Faculty & Staff News
    • Alumni News
    • Submit News
  • Give
  • Mobile Menu Extras
    • News
    • Events
    • Give

    Search form

    social_media

Visiting Transmedia Artist Stephanie Dinkins explores “ecosystems based on care and social equity” through AI

Stephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48, ongoing video project, 2014-present.
Log in to post comments
Banner image: Stephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48, ongoing video project, 2014-present.

 

“I am really trying to think through ideas and learn about the systems around us and how they impact communities — particularly Black communities and communities of color. [..] asking a community 'What does AI need from you?'” 

-Stephanie Dinkins, artist feature by the Guggenheim Museum in recognition of receiving the first LG Guggenheim Award.

 

Visiting artist and inclusive AI advocate Stephanie Dinkins delivers a public lecture on her use of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence to probe their impact on communities of color and advance “ecosystems based on care and social equity.” Join us on March 19 at 5 pm in Room S151 of our Main Building on 270 River Road. The lecture is free and open the public.

Dinkins is the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art at Stonybrook University and the recipient of various accolades, including the first LG Guggenheim Award presented by the Guggenheim Museum for groundbreaking artists working with technology. Recognizing Dinkins's 20-year career, the Guggenheim proclaims “Stephanie’s pioneering work in artificial intelligence centers equity, transparency, and social engagement through an ethics of participation, dialogue, and care.” 

Dinkins is a Visiting Artist at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, invited by the school to participate in a three-day interaction with students, faculty, and members of the UGA campus community.

 

Stephanie Dinkins, artist feature by the Guggenheim Museum in recognition of receiving the first LG Guggenheim Award.
 

Assistant Professor of Sculpture Kimberly Lyle, who is hosting Dinkins at the School of Art during her visit, was hired in the fall of 2023 under the UGA Presidential Interdisciplinary Faculty Hiring Initiative in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Complimenting Dinkins' investigations of systemic and social impacts of AI, Lyle's practice “explores the implications of technology on our relationships with each other and the more than human world. Moving fluidly between tangible and digital processes, her work aims to re-imagine what technology can be and who it is for.” 

Dinkins' oeuvre includes ongoing projects like Conversations with Bina48 — a ten-year video interview with “Bina48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture, 48 exaflops per second) an intelligent computer built by Terasem Movement Foundation that is said to be capable of independent thought and emotion.” Framed opposite this humanoid robot, Dinkins probes morality, life and death, consciousness, and the nature of transhumanism — the transfer of consciousness beyond our present embodied existence through science and technology.

In Not the Only One, Dinkins aims to create a new “conversant archive” by training a deep learning algorithm on three matrilineal generations of oral history in one family. According to the artist, “by centering oral history and creative storytelling methods, such as interactivity and verbal ingenuity, this project hopes to spark crucial conversations about AI and its impact on society, now and in the future.” In the next iteration of the project, Dinkins is developing an avatar that embodies the AI and drives questions of how its Black presence influences audience reception.

This event is presented by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and by the UGA Humanities Council as part of the 2024 UGA Humanities Festival.

 

Stephanie Dinkins. Not the Only One. This image is a composite the women whose stories inform NTOO.  She does not exist. ​Courtesy of the artist.
Stephanie Dinkins. Not the Only One. This image is a composite the women whose stories inform NTOO.  She does not exist. ​Courtesy of the artist.
 
About the Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series

The Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series has brought over 80 distinguished guests to the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia since 2002. Visiting Artists and Scholars spend three days on campus interacting with students and faculty, the culmination of which is a public lecture on the subject of the artist’s or scholar’s work.

Artist bio

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.

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.

  • Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series
Categories
Inclusive Excellence
Academic Area
Sculpture

More Dodd News

May 02, 2025
UGA Community Art School, Drawing Other Humans, Spring 2025 session. Photograph courtesy of Sidney Chansamone.

UGA Community Art School summer courses open

Apr 29, 2025
 Ally Smith speaking at the Atlanta pop-up exhibition 'Exit Ahead' at Whitespace gallery last week. Photo by Sidney Chansamone.

UGA student thrives in Layton Design Studio

Apr 25, 2025
2025 UGA Summer Art Camp banner

UGA Summer Art Camp grows, partners with Summer Academy at the University of Georgia for 2025 session

Apr 07, 2025
MAEd program ad banner Athenaeum

UGA Master of Art Education degree transitions to online program

Footer Menu 1

  • Academics
  • UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
  • Degree Options
  • Studio Art Core
  • GRADUATE PROGRAMS
    • MA
    • MFA
    • MAEd
    • PhD Art Education
    • PhD Art History
    • Funding & Research Support
  • Admissions
  • Studies Abroad & Field Study

Footer Menu 2

  • Galleries
    • Current Exhibitons
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Performances & Talks
    • Propose an Exhibitions
    • BFA Exhibition Guidelines

Footer Meun 4

  • Faculty & Staff
    • Faculty & Staff Resources
    • Curriculum Policies
    • Forms & Links
    • Dodd Studio Support
  • Graduate Students
  • Alumni
    • Create an Alumni Profile
    • Alumni Opportunities

Footer 3

  • Dodd Resources
  • Equipment Checkout
    • Open Access Fabrication Labs
    • Dodd Studio Support
  • Student Resources
    • Scholarships
  • Academic Advising
    • Degree Requirements
    • Minor Requirements
    • Area Portfolio Review
    • Internship Policy & Course
  • Student Opportunities
    • Submit an Opportunity for Students

Footer Menu 5

  • Facilities
    • Request a Meeting Space
  • Studio & Classroom Spaces
    • Thomas Street Art Complex
    • Art Library
    • Open Access Fabrication Labs
    • Maps & Floor Plans
  • Research
    • Visit the School
    • Board of Visitors
    • Visiting Artists & Scholars
    • Work at the Dodd
  • View Calendar

Footer Submit Menu

  • ALL FORMS AND LINKS
  • Event/Calendar Submission
  • Instructor Override Request Form
  • Multi-Student Override Request Form
  • Website Update

Franklin_A&S-FS-CW-(1)-websize.png

Lamar Dodd School of Art
University of Georgia
270 River Road
Athens, GA 30602

706.542.1511
 

CONTACT US

Privacy Policy | © 2020 Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. All rights reserved.

Login  |  UGA Master Calendar  |  www.uga.edu                          website feedback