Stephanie Dinkins, an artist working with artificial intelligence, race, gender, and history, wanted to develop a way to create nuanced datasets that center and honor lives, cultures and values often under considered or ignored in the technosphere. School designed and built a visual language and app to collect donated data from people hoping to create more descriptive, comprehensive, and supportive datasets that represent our communities with complexity, love, and understanding.
Stephanie Dinkins created a series of animating pixelated artworks that appear throughout the app experience. At the start the user is greeted with a simple explanation of the premise and the ability to start donating answers or learn more. We wanted the app experience to be very simple to allow for the content and prompts to draw the most energy.
Each week the app updates with new questions that fall under predetermined subjects like environment. Once the user has submitted their answers for those questions they only receive a notification once there are more questions to answer.
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The app was build to be available via iOS and Android. Making it accessible to nearly anyone with a smartphone.