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Stephanie Dinkins is an award-winning transmedia artist and educator who creates art projects that are intended to act as platforms for dialogs about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it intersects with race, gender, aging, and history.
Dinkins grew up in Tottenville, Staten Island in New York and earned her bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in advertising and marketing. She then studied at the International Center of Photography and later earned her master of fine arts (MFA) in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1997. Dinkins is also an alumna of the Whitney Independent Studies Program, an independent study program from the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Dinkins has been awarded various fellowships, including ones from Sundance New Frontiers Story Lab, Society Research Institute, Open Society Foundations, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
After graduating with her MFA, Dinkins started her own art studio in New York City in 1997. In 2007, she became the graduate program director for the art department at Stony Brook University. Dinkins has had several promotions to different positions at the university, including associate professor and professor of art. In 2012, Dinkins was made an advisory board member on the art advisory committee for Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.
Dinkins is also the founder of an art and technology incubator called AI.Assembly, which began in 2017. The organization started as a series of meetings to discuss representation in AI spaces for communities that are underrepresented in technology spaces, including people of color, women, the disabled, and 2SLGBTQ+ people.
In 2021, Dinkins founded the Future Histories Studio at Stony Brook University, which is an exploratory hub and laboratory for arts-centered research related to the study of the intersection of art, technology, race, storytelling, and social justice.
Artist Profile
Dinkins has had dozens of art projects and exhibitions throughout her career. The exhibitions use various art mediums, including photography, video, AI, machine learning, and more. Dinkins's art has been exhibited throughout the world in places such as the Smithsonian Museum of Arts and Industry in Washington, D.C., the Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany.
