Stephanie Dinkins on AI, Community Memory, and Data as Care

Transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins joins Hugh Leeman for a conversation about AI, equity, storytelling, and collective memory. Known for her work at the intersection of emerging technology and underrepresented communities, Dinkins discusses how personal and communal narratives can reshape the data systems that increasingly govern our lives.The conversation moves from her grandmother’s garden as a model of community-building to her AI literacy work, her family-based project Not the Only Ones, and her exhibition Data Trust at ICA San José. Dinkins considers what it means to create technologies rooted in care, how Black and brown communities can challenge algorithmic bias, and why storytelling remains one of humanity’s most powerful tools for survival, recognition, and transformation.