{"id":19523,"date":"2025-07-23T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/pretty-revolutionary-a-brooklyn-exhibit-interrogates-white-dominated-ai-to-make-it-more-inclusive\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:37:14","slug":"pretty-revolutionary-a-brooklyn-exhibit-interrogates-white-dominated-ai-to-make-it-more-inclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/pretty-revolutionary-a-brooklyn-exhibit-interrogates-white-dominated-ai-to-make-it-more-inclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pretty revolutionary\u2019: a Brooklyn exhibit interrogates white-dominated AI to make it more inclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Dinkins challenges the racialized AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones <\/p>\n<p>At the Plaza at 300 Ashland Place in downtown Brooklyn, patrons mill around a large yellow shipping container with black triangles painted on its side. A nod to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/03\/1235158989\/the-enduring-story-for-underground-railroad-quilts\">flying geese quilt pattern<\/a>, which may have served as a coded message for enslaved people escaping to freedom along the Underground Railroad, the design and container serve as a bridge between the past and the future of the African diaspora. At the center of the art project by the Brooklyn-based transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins, a large screen displays artificial intelligence (AI) generated images that showcase the diversity of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioned by the New York-based art non-profit More Art and designed in collaboration with the architects LOT-EK, the AI laboratory <a href=\"https:\/\/moreart.org\/projects\/if-we-dont-who-will\/\">If We Don\u2019t, Who Will?<\/a><em> <\/em>will be on display until 28 September. It seeks to challenge a white-dominated generative-AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/jul\/23\/stephanie-dinkins-ai-race-black-white-technology\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fdb2812ab13a4b862005f52c0652eed5d889f82b\/573_0_4620_3699\/master\/4620.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=085ec4d9416abcdff8e683b5f9565cee\" title=\"\u2018Pretty revolutionary\u2019: a Brooklyn exhibit interrogates white-dominated AI to make it more inclusive\" \/>Stephanie Dinkins challenges the racialized AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones<br \/>\nAt the Plaza at 300 Ashland Place in downtown Brooklyn, patrons mill around a large yellow shipping container with black triangles painted on its side. A nod to the flying geese quilt pattern, which may have served as a coded message for enslaved people escaping to freedom along the Underground Railroad, the design and container serve as a bridge between the past and the future of the African diaspora. At the center of the art project by the Brooklyn-based transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins, a large screen displays artificial intelligence (AI) generated images that showcase the diversity of the city.<br \/>\nCommissioned by the New York-based art non-profit More Art and designed in collaboration with the architects LOT-EK, the AI laboratory If We Don\u2019t, Who Will? will be on display until 28 September. It seeks to challenge a white-dominated generative-AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Dinkins challenges the racialized AI space by highlighting Black ethos and cultural cornerstones At the Plaza at 300 Ashland Place in downtown Brooklyn, patrons mill around a large yellow shipping container with black triangles painted on its side. A nod to the flying geese quilt pattern, which may have served as a coded message &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/23\/pretty-revolutionary-a-brooklyn-exhibit-interrogates-white-dominated-ai-to-make-it-more-inclusive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Pretty revolutionary\u2019: a Brooklyn exhibit interrogates white-dominated AI to make it more inclusive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}