Stephanie Dinkins is a 2025–2027 Jane Lombard Fellow, nominated by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics for the Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Prize as part of the center’s Matter of Intelligence Focus Theme.

Stephanie Dinkins is a transdisciplinary artist whose work explores emerging technologies, future histories, and the narratives shaping artificial intelligence. Through installations, digital platforms, storytelling, and community-based projects, she creates spaces for dialogue about technology’s impact on Black, brown, and underrepresented communities. Her practice challenges dominant paradigms of AI development while imagining more equitable systems that amplify the voices and knowledge of the global majority. Dinkins holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art at Stony Brook University. She is a Lincoln Center Collider Fellow (2025), a Schmidt Futures AI2050 Senior Fellow, and the inaugural recipient of the LG-Guggenheim Award (2023). TIME named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023. Her work has been exhibited at the New Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Bronx Museum of Art, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Ford Foundation. She earned an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Studies Program.

Conversations with Bina48 is a video-based art project featuring a series of interviews between Stephanie Dinkins and Bina48, an advanced Black social robot. In 2014, Dinkins began visiting Bina48, a humanoid robot described as capable of independent thought and emotion, with the aim of befriending her and asking her to answer the question, “Who are your people?” The two have discussed family, racism, faith, robot civil rights, consciousness, loneliness, knowledge, age, and Bina48’s concern for her robot friends, who are treated more like lab rats than people. Their conversations have been entertaining, frustrating for both robot and artist, surprisingly humorous, philosophical, and, at times, absurd.