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Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data

Srimoyee Mitra
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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. 
  • Contents
  • Foreword. On Love & Data: A Foreword by Salome Asega
  • Framework. Afro-now-ism: The Unencumbered Black Mind is a Well Spring of Possibility, by Stephanie Dinkins
  • Essays
    • Radical Love & Data Justice: The Empowering Art of Stephanie Dinkins, by Srimoyee Mitra
    • The Data You Give, by Christiane Paul
    • Stephanie Dinkins’s Secret Garden, by Shari Frilot
    • “Who Are Your People?”: Stephanie Dinkins’s Afro-Now-ism as Algorithmic Abundance, by Lisa Nakamura
  • Works in the Exhibition
  • Artist’s Biography
  • Contributors’ Biographies
  • About Stamps Gallery
  • Acknowledgements
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design for making this book possible.
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Published: 2024
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90399-3 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-03959-3 (paper)
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  • Media Studies:New Media
  • American Studies
  • Class Studies
  • Michigan and the Great Lakes:Art and Culture

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Installation photo: Large open gallery space with four voting booths toward the corners. Two of the voting booths are tall and two are closer to the ground. All voting booths are open except for one. One of the voting booths is closed and acts as a table with printed newsprint broadsheets on it. On the far wall is a flat-screen TV showing the interface of the Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us app. On the wall on the right is vinyl text that reads, "What does AI need from you?" This text is large and purple. It fills the entire wall and is repeated numerous times.

Installation view of Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27 - October 23, 2021

Installation view of Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27–October 23, 2021. Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M Photography.

Photo: Mobile voting booth folded up, acting as a table with a stack of printed newsprint broadsheets on it. On the cover of the printed newsprint broadsheet is purple text on the left that says "I am black" and on the right a pixelated Black woman with white hair and a red shirt.

Printed handout on mobile voting booth in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27 - October 23, 2021

Printed handout on mobile voting booth. in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27–October 23, 2021. Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M Photography.

Video still: Grid of photo squares with seven squares across and four squares down. Each square has an abstracted human face wearing some sort of red shirt.

Stephanie Dinkins, A ____________________________ woman smiling, 2021, Video still from GAN computer generated videos. Image from artist devised text (text to image GAN). Video, 5 Seconds.

Stephanie Dinkins A____________________________ woman smiling, 2021. Video still from GAN computer-generated videos. Image from artist-devised text (text-to-image GAN). Video, five seconds. © Stephanie Dinkins.

Video still: Grid of black and white photo squares with seven squares across and four squares down. Each square has an abstracted human mouth.

Stephanie Dinkins, A ____________________________ woman smiling, 2021, Video still from GAN computer generated videos. Image from artist devised text (text to image GAN). Video, 5 Seconds, 2.

Stephanie Dinkins A____________________________ woman smiling, 2021. Video still from GAN computer-generated videos. Image from artist-devised text (text-to-image GAN). Video, five seconds. © Stephanie Dinkins.

Video still: Grid of photo squares with seven squares across and four squares down. Some squares have abstracted bodies in them. Multicolored.

Stephanie Dinkins, A ____________________________ woman smiling, 2021, Video still from GAN computer generated videos. Image from artist devised text (text to image GAN). Video, 5 Seconds, 3.

Stephanie Dinkins, A____________________________ woman smiling, 2021. Video still from GAN computer-generated videos. Image from artist-devised text (text-to-image GAN). Video, five seconds. © Stephanie Dinkins.

Photo: Person with short black hair and gray shirt, looking at three abstract images on a white wall. In the first abstract picture is a person smiling. The only thing in view is the bottom part of their head, face, and torso. In the middle, the picture looks like abstract shapes in black and white. The picture on the right is a person smiling with only the bottom half of their head, neck and shoulders in view.

Stephanie Dinkins, A ____________________________ woman smiling, 2021, Series of three GAN computer generated prints. Dye sublimation prints on metal.

Stephanie Dinkins A____________________________ woman smiling, 2021. Series of three GAN computer-generated prints. Images from artist-devised text (text-to-image GAN). Prints: dye sublimation prints on metal. Photo by Harry Myers, Michigan Media.

Digital image: In the center is an abstracted Black person wearing a white shirt with their hands together in front of them. The person is wearing blue pants and one of their legs looks like a piece of wood. The very top of their head is cut off by the frame. The background is gray tannish color.

Stephanie Dinkins, A Proud Black Man, 2022, Digital image.

Stephanie Dinkins, A Proud Black Man, 2022. Digital image. © Stephanie Dinkins.

Photo: wall with purple neon lights that say "Afro-Now-Ism" and yellow neon lights above and below the "Now" that say "Now, Own, Now". The two words dissect each other forming a cross-like layout. The back wall features a lenticular image of a woman with walnut brown skin and curly gray hair wearing a red jacket tied at the side with black tabs. She is leaning forward and screaming into the camera. The background is black and she is framed by a broach-like metal snake eating its own tail.

Installation view of the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27 - October 23, 2021

Installation view of the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at Stamps Gallery, August 27–October 23, 2021. Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M Photography.

Photo: Eight flags on flagpoles approximately eight feet tall are lined up next to each other horizontally. The flags are the design of the US flag, but instead of the color red, it is green, instead of white it is black, and instead of blue it is brown. The flags and flagpoles are held down by stacked black sandbags. The backdrop to the flags is a glass wall window in an office building.

Installation view of Stephanie Dinkins, Complementary (Detail), 2020, Flags, flag poles, sand bags, dimensions variable, at Stamps Gallery, 2021

Installation view of Stephanie Dinkins Complementary (Detail), 2020. Flags, flagpoles, sandbags, dimensions variable, at Stamps Gallery, 2021. Photo by Eric Bronson, U-M Photography.

Exhibit photo: Dark room with a purple illuminated floor. The floor is in the foreground and there are small sculptures of buildings in the front of wall projections. On the walls is the projection "The Secret Garden" by artist Stephanie Dinkins. The projection shows two Black women, one on the left and one on the right. Behind them are cotton, okra, and green leaves. Above the projection is a black sky and a few purple lights.

Installation view of Secret Garden by Stephanie Dinkins in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data on view at the Queens Museum from March 13, 2022 - August 14, 2022

Installation view of Secret Garden in the exhibition Stephanie Dinkins: On Love & Data at the Queens Museum, March 13, 2022–August 14, 2022. Photo by Stephanie Dinkins. © Stephanie Dinkins.

Screenshot: View from WebXR, an illustration design is running horizontally across the image of white cotton, green okra plants, purple poppies, and yellow roses. There are white stars mingled in the garden and below. The background on top and bottom is black.

Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden, 2021, Screen grab from Secret Garden WebXR online

Stephanie Dinkins Secret Garden, 2021. Screen grab from Secret Garden. WebXR online. © Stephanie Dinkins.

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Stephanie Dinkins, Say It Aloud, 2021-ongoing

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Stephanie Dinkins, Secret Garden, 2021-ongoing

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Stephanie Dinkins, Binary Calculations Are Inadequate to Assess Us, 2022

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