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Stephanie Dinkins

Stephanie Dinkins is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and race, gender, and age, and how technology shapes history. She teaches at Stony Brook University, and was named an “AI Influencer” in the New York Times. Her work consists primarily of interactive installations that use AI algorithms to communicate issues of social justice and her own familial experiences while trying to make AI technology more accessible to underfunded communities. Specifically, her project “Not the Only One” centers around her multigenerational family history, helping to tell the story of her ancestors as a unique, deep-learning entity. I admire the way in which her work humanizes the world of AI, demonstrating how it can intersect with deeply personal topics. She also emphasizes the importance of using programming in a way that brings in audiences who might not otherwise be immersed in or have access to this technological setting, as well as people who might not recognize how it can relate to themselves.