Stephanie Dinkins Named Inaugural Recipient of the LG
Guggenheim Award§The trailblazing Brooklyn-based ar5st, educator, and ar5ﬁcial intelligenceprac55oner aims to create equitable social and technological ecosystems.

§The Award is part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Ini5a5ve, a ﬁveyear, mul5faceted collabora5on designed to research, honor, and promote
ar5sts working at the intersec5on of art and technology.

The Guggenheim and LG proudly announce Stephanie Dinkins as the inaugural LG GuggenheimAward recipient. The Brooklyn-based ar?st, educator, and pioneering ar?ﬁcial intelligence (AI)
prac??oner, whose career spans over twenty years of ar?s?c inquiry, is the ﬁrst awardee to berecognized as part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Ini?a?ve; a ﬁve-year, mul?faceted
collabora?on designed to research, honor, and promote ar?sts working at the intersec?on of art
and technology. Selected by an interna?onal jury of experts in the ﬁeld, Dinkins will receive anunrestricted honorarium of $100,000 in celebra?on of her groundbreaking achievements intechnology-based art.
“Stephanie Dinkins’ ar?s?c range, engagement with socio-cultural values, and leading ar?ﬁcial
intelligence explora?ons are crucial reﬂec?ons of the evolving future of technology-based art.
It’s the Guggenheim’s honor to support her extraordinary work through this award,” statedNaomi Beckwith, Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Guggenheim.
“LG congratulates Stephanie Dinkins, and hopes this recogni?on will meaningfully advance her
future endeavors,” said Seol Park, Head of Brand Management at LG Corp. “The $100,000
honorarium is accompanied by a physical award whose sculptural form represents the poten?alfor technology to inspire new and unexpected arYorms,” explained Park.
Dinkins’s par?cipatory and immersive works aim to create equitable social and technologicalecosystems through public engagement, storytelling, and a hands-on approach to technology.
Her long-running experiments with AI center memory, in?macy, poe?cs, and playfulness as
strategies to reconstruct AI models and their integrated tools—in par?cular natural language

processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), by which computers encode words into data forself-training, as well as deep learning (DL), which takes inspira?on from neural networks tobe[er imitate human thought processes. By anchoring her prac?ce in small data rather thanvast quan??es of informa?on, Dinkins develops repara?ve models for AI centered not on
instrumentaliza?on but rather on socially driven and culturally sensi?ve values such as care anda[en?veness.
“I am grateful to LG and the Guggenheim for their support of ar?sts who are using technology
to foster posi?ve change. I believe that art has the power to inspire and provoke, and I amcommi[ed to using my work to raise awareness of important issues and to promote social
jus?ce,” said Stephanie Dinkins.
Whether through chatbots, virtual and augmented reality, or gallery experiences, Dinkins
addresses marginalized groups, such as people of color, LGBTQIA+ communi?es, women, anddisabled people, who are excessively aﬀected by poor code design. Her body of work advancestransparent, redressable AI systems by cul?va?ng digital literacy and online representa?onamong these largely unprotected popula?ons–foreshadowing the most urgent discussions
about social jus?ce and technology in the present day.
Dinkins (b. 1964, Perth Amboy, NJ) is the Yayoi Kusama Professor of Art at Stony Brook
University, NY, where she founded the Future Histories Studio as part of the DISCO Network, aninteracademic web incorpora?ng social sciences and ar?s?c approaches to promote online
equity and safety for impacted communi?es. She holds an MFA from the Maryland Ins?tute
College of Art and is a graduate of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Recent exhibi?ons
include Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data, Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI (2021, traveled toQueens Museum of Art, NY); In Search of the Present, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland(2021–22); FUTURES, Smithsonian Museum Arts and Industry, Washington D.C. (2021–22);
Diﬀerence Machines: Technology and IdenBty in Contemporary Art, Buﬀalo AKG Museum, NY(2022); BioMedia: The Era of Life-Like Media, ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,Germany (2022); and The ImitaBon Game, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada (2022). She has also
exhibited at De Young Museum, San Francisco (2020); Philadelphia Museum of Art (2019); andFord Founda?on Gallery, New York (2018, 2023). Her work has also been supported by theOnassis Founda?on (2021); Nokia Bell Labs (2019–21); Stanford Ins?tute for Human-CenteredAr?ﬁcial Intelligence; Facebook (Meta) FAIR (2021–22); the Ar?st Fellow program of theBerggruen Ins?tute (2020); Crea?ve Capital (2019); Soros Equality Fellowship (2018); and manyothers. Dinkins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

The jurors for the 2023 LG Guggenheim Award are Legacy Russell, Execu?ve Director and ChiefCurator, The Kitchen, New York; Tina Rivers Ryan, Curator, Buﬀalo AKG Art Museum, New York;Nat Trotman, Curator, Performance and Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York;
Xiaoyu Weng, independent curator and writer; and Anicka Yi, ar?st.
Stephanie Dinkins will be celebrated in this year’s YCC Party, presented by LG Display. The LG
Guggenheim Award and the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Ini?a?ve is made possible byLG.

Jury Statement“We are pleased to oﬀer the inaugural LG Guggenheim Award to ar?st and educator Stephanie
Dinkins. Among the truly impressive group of nominees we considered, Dinkins stood out forher singular and excep?onal work in the ﬁeld of ar?ﬁcial intelligence. Dinkins’s longstanding andinterna?onally recognized prac?ce is deeply centered in ethics of care and social equity,exploring new models for machine learning based not in extrac?on but in engagement. Her
inclusive and collabora?ve approach powerfully advocates for transparency, par?cipa?on, andaccess around AI technologies, especially among communi?es at greatest risk of being abusedby them. Through a range of media that includes interac?ve installa?ons, sculpture, video, andweb projects, as well as wri?ng and community workshops, Dinkins steadfastly focuses onfamily structures, oral histories, and small data. By enac?ng change locally, her works claim, wecan envision new technological ecosystems at a global scale.
“As ar?ﬁcial intelligence dominates public discourse around technology and increasingly impacts
the daily lives of people all over the world, we applaud Dinkins for the urgency and op?mism of
her inves?ga?ons. We are honored to support her groundbreaking prac?ce through thistransforma?onal Award.”

About the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Ini5a5veFounded in 2022, the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Ini?a?ve is a ﬁve-year, mul?faceted
collabora?on between the Guggenheim and LG designed to research, honor, and promote
ar?sts working at the intersec?on of art and technology. Unique in its areas of concentra?onand approach, the ini?a?ve is an unprecedented investment in technology as an ar?s?cmedium. It will allow the Guggenheim to broaden its inves?ga?ons into this innova?ve ﬁeld,providing essen?al support to the visionary ar?sts who inspire new understandings of how
technology shapes, and is shaped by, society.

The ini?a?ve is also supported by the appointment of Noam Segal as LG Electronics AssociateCurator. Focusing on research, Segal holds an ac?ve role in developing the Guggenheim’sengagement with technology-based art, producing scholarship and public-facing content thatwill strengthen the goals of the mul?faceted ini?a?ve across the museum’s departments.

About LG
LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, chemicals, andautomo?ve components. Founded in 1947, LG was a driving force behind South Korea’s
moderniza?on. The company produced South Korea’s ﬁrst radio and television sets, and today isa global leader in organic light-emisng displays (OLED), electric car ba[eries, and advanced
industrial plas?cs. The LG group of companies employ over 280,000 people in more than 60
countries that together generate USD 150 billion in annual revenue. LG Corpora?on (LG Corp.) is
the holding company for industry-leading LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG
Energy Solu?on, LG Chem, to name a few. For more informa?on about the LG groupof companies, visit lgcorp.com.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Founda?on was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promo?ng
the understanding and apprecia?on of modern and contemporary art through exhibi?ons,educa?on programs, research ini?a?ves, and publica?ons. The interna?onal constella?on ofmuseums includes the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim
Collec?on, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. An
architectural icon and “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the SolomonR. Guggenheim Museum is now among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in theUnited States recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about themuseum and the Guggenheim’s ac?vi?es around the world, visit guggenheim.org.
May 19, 2023
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