Artist Stephanie Dinkins has won the first LG Guggenheim Award, which felicitates artists working on the intersection of art and technology.
The LG Guggenheim Art & Technology Initiative is a five-year program that aims to award artists that have incorporated technology into their art (and vice versa). This was the inaugural award given to Dinkins. The award comes with a cash prize of $100,000. Talking about Dinkins, the jury wrote: ‘Through a range of media that includes interactive installations, sculpture, video, and web projects, as well as writing and community workshops, Dinkins steadfastly focuses on family structures, oral histories, and small data. By enacting change locally, her works claim, we can envision new technological ecosystems at a global scale.’
Stephanie Dinkins is currently a teacher at Stony Brook University in New York. She often experiments with technology like chatbots, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Using AI, Dinkins usually trains models and employs other tools to create installations that have an artistic appeal. Naomi Beckwith, the deputy director of the Guggenheim Museum, praised Stephanie Dinkins’ “artistic range, engagement with socio-cultural values, and leading AI explorations are crucial reflections of the evolving future of technology-based art.”
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