Precedent Study: Conversations with Bina48 by Stephanie Dinkins

Bibliography – Author

The Story of Bina48 and Stephanie Dinkins
Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture (BINA48) is one of the most socially intelligent robots in the world developed in 2010 by Hanson Robotics.
Designed after a real black woman Bina Rothblatt, Bina48 was built to experiment the technical ability of a robot to mimic a human.
Stephanie Dinkins, when she saw the robot, decided to create an interactive performative project through filming various conversations and interactions with Bina48 to reframe the robot in a lens that delivers the hidden biases that could be delivered through AI systems for marginalized communities.
Dinkin's work radically shifted the project Bina48, now as robot that encourages a critical inquiry and storytelling of issues like social injustice, gender inequality, racism, and more.

• Project Page: Conversations with Bina48
• About Stephanie Dinkins
• Stephanie Dinkins: Building Something Now
• Stephanie Dinkins: Okra Continuum

Bibliography – Others

• Art21: Robots, Race, and Algorithms
  by Jacquelyn Gleisner
  Gleisner praises the artist of the project for her speculative vision and throught-provoking themes of the project, while acknowledging the technical limitations of the robot, embodiment gap, and information biases.
• WIRED: Bina48, Robots, and Identity
  by Heather Sten
  Sten overall shares appraisal of the project as the author admires Dinkin's willingness to merge technology and storytelling together.
  Believes Dinkin's work is still an ongoing and a necessary project in this world, as the issue that this project tackles is viewed as an unsolved problem.
• REVIEW: Stephanie Dinkins: On Love and Data
  by Ruth
  Ruth shares an appraisal with an hopeful attidude towards the potential of the project to be shared to the world. Ruth appreciates the conversation and the tension coming from the interaction between a human and a machine, and continues to recommend all readers to join in and enjoy the essential viewing of the work.
• Love, Philosophy, and Processors: Interview With a Robot
  by Ramona Pringle
  Pringle connects emotionally and intellectually to the work and shares a unique perspective on the project. The author questions the future of artificial intelligence, whether it could one day become a philosophical agent, as it is gradually building its understanding in humane characteristics like understanding, emotions, love, and more.