About the Future Histories Studio
The Future Histories Studio (FHS) is a new laboratory for emerging modes of arts-centered research, production, and presentation founded by Stephanie Dinkins with support from the Mellon Foundation. It is an exploratory hub for those interested in hybrid inquiry and developing practice-based research at the intersections of art, technology, race, storytelling, and social justice.
Located in the Department of Art at Stony Brook University, FHS experiments with art at the intersection of emerging technologies. Specific research areas include, but are not limited to artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, and bio-art inclusive of computer vision, data equity, community agreement, governance, and care. Emphasis is on art and knowledge production exploring concepts, questions, and intuitions through free study, practice, craft, tinkering, and collaboration with the aim of combating techno supremacy by modeling and alternative methodologies with the potential for tangible social impact.
Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration & Optimism Network
FHS is a part of The Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & Optimism (DISCO) network. Initiated in April 2021 with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, DISCO envisions a new anti-racist, anti-ableist digital future through a speculative, experimental, nuanced, and critical lens to be investigated with a variety of approaches at labs on five leading public research universities.
The DISCO network consists of professor Lisa Nakamura and associate professor Remi Yergeau, University of Michigan; André Brock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rayvon Fouché, Purdue University; Catherine Knight Steele, the University of Maryland; and Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University.
Creators @ FHS
- Stephanie Dinkins (FHS lead)
- Coleman Collins (Artist-in-Residence)
- Josie Williams (Research Assitant and DISCO Graduate Fellow)
- Diana Zhu (Graduate Assistant and DISCO Graduate Fellow)