Public Art: Stephanie Dinkins’ “If We Don’t, Who Will?”

More Art, in partnership with Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and Two Trees Management, is thrilled to announce If We Don’t, Who Will?, a public art commission by transdisciplinary artist and technologist Stephanie Dinkins. The installation opens Wednesday, June 25th and will be on view through September 28, 2025.

A leading voice in AI for over two decades, Dinkins is known for creating critical artworks that illuminate the intersections of artificial intelligence with race, gender, cultural memory, and history. In this project, she invites the public to engage with a performative and functional artificial intelligence laboratory in a public plaza in Downtown Brooklyn.

Blending sculptural, technical, and performative approaches, If We Don’t, Who Will? is framed as the introductory chapter of an evolving series of planned works by Dinkins entitled The Stories We Tell Our Machines. The project challenges the conventions of AI by centering the culture, craft, and the well-being of historically underrepresented communities within the global majority. Guided by the artist’s belief that a more equitable and just AI is possible, If We Don’t, Who Will? encourages us to build care-filled relationships with machine intelligences, demonstrating that care is at the core of our humanity.

The installation opens Wednesday, June 25th and will be on view through September 28, 2025.