Stephanie Dinkins, 2023 Guggenheim Award Recipient
LG Guggenheim Award
L G G u g g e n h e i m A w a r d
The multi-year initiative establishes the LG Guggenheim Award, the flagship program of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, which recognizes one artist annually for their groundbreaking achievements in technology-based art.
Administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the award is juried by an international panel of distinguished museum directors, curators, scholars, and other arts professionals, with the selected artist receiving an unrestricted honorarium
of $100,000.
The Guggenheim New York and LG proudly announce Stephanie Dinkins as the 2023 LG Guggenheim Award recipient.
2023 Award Recipient
Stephanie Dinkins, the recipient of the inaugural 2023 LG Guggenheim Award, is a professor at Stony Brook University in New York and an artist whose works employ technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR). Through her practice, she highlights how AI can perpetuate bias and discrimination against marginalized communities, underscoring the importance of fairness and equity in the digital age.
Based in New York, Dinkins has carried out a wide range of artistic experiments with cutting-edge technologies for more than two decades. Among her most notable works is Conversations with BINA48, a video piece featuring a dialogue between Dinkins and “BINA48,” an AI robot modeled after a real Black woman, Bina Rothblatt. The work conveys the message that diversity in race, gender, disability, and cultural background must be considered in the data on which AI systems are trained.
Dinkins has also been recognized globally, having been named to TIME magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in AI, affirming her standing as a leading figure at the intersection of art and technology.
Major Works
Jury
"Among the truly impressive group of nominees we considered, Dinkins stood out for her singular and exceptional work in the field of artificial intelligence. Dinkins’s longstanding and internationally recognized practice is deeply centered in ethics of care and social equity, exploring new models for machine learning based not in extraction but in engagement"
- Excerpt from the Jury’s comments
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Artist Profile: 2023 LG Guggenheim Award Recipient Stephanie Dinkins
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Meeting of technology and art for a better world: announcement of 2023 LG Guggenheim Award
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Naomi Beckwith, deputy director of Guggenheim announcing 2023 LG Guggenheim Award recipient
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Stephanie Dinkins, the inaugural recipient of LG Guggenheim Award speaking at the Artist Talk
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Award recipient celebration at the 2023 YCC Party
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Art meets Tech on display in Times Square
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Showcases of Stephanie Dinkins' latest art on LG OLED at the Guggenheim's 'Late Shift' event
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2023 LG Guggenheim Award recipient with the physical award
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Physical Award
In conceptualizing the physical award, we drew inspiration from digital zero and one — the elemental foundation of information science and computing. Just as this profoundly simple construct made possible technological wonders such as augmented reality and artificial intelligence, in this design the digits "1" and "0" are captured in midst of active interaction, anticipating new and unexpected artforms that digital technology can bring to the art of the Future. LG collaborated with Lee Suk-woo, who designed the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic medals, on this interpretation of our concept.
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Initiative
The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative is a five-year, multifaceted collaboration designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Unique in its areas of concentration and approach, the initiative
is an unprecedented investment in technology as an artistic medium. It will enable the Guggenheim to broaden its investigations into this innovative field, providing essential support to the visionary artists who inspire new understandings
of how technology shapes, and is shaped by, society.
Through a sustained Global Partnership in support of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, LG aims to help usher in a new wave of digital creativity, combining cutting-edge solutions with the unmatched artistic sensibilities of
the Guggenheim.
LG Guggenheim Art & Technology Initiative
LG and the Guggenheim Museum are jointly leading a five-year global project, the “LG Guggenheim Art & Technology Initiative,” focused on the intersection of technology and art - featuring OLED-based digital art collaborations, the LG Guggenheim Award, and a unified visual identity including custom trophy design.
Noam Segal: LG Electronics Associate Curator At Guggenheim Museum
Noam Segal serves as the LG Electronics Associate Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, spearheading initiatives at the intersection of art and technology. She oversees the annual LG Guggenheim Award, which honors artists
working with emerging technologies, and drives efforts in expanding the museum’s digital art collection, scholarships, and research focused on themes like AI, computer vision, ecology, and social justice.
Her role also encompasses managing specialized conversation teams for media art and organizing collaborative technology-backed exhibitions.
Stephanie Dinkins: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023
Multimedia artist Stephanie Dinkins has long explored the racial and cultural biases of AI, especially its failure to authentically represent Black women. In her project Not the Only One, she trained an AI on stories from three generations of Black women to embed cultural depth, though the AI still struggles with fluid conversation and understanding race. Through her incubator, AI.Assembly, Dinkins advocates for boarder inclusion in AI development, emphasizing its growing impact on all lives.