The visitors at the Institute of Contemporary Art last Friday can say they were there when one of the most innovative installations in the city’s history was unveiled. It’s Data Trust, a project by Brooklyn-based artist Stephanie Dinkins that has transformed the downtown San Jose gallery into an immersive, AI-driven environment.

It’s about land and history and storytelling and technology, but it’s really about people. Dinkins, who was named one of Time’s Most Influential People in AI, interviewed people in African American communities in the Bay Area to get the oral histories that the project’s artificial intelligence uses to generate immersive projections on 14-foot walls — images the move and evolve.

It’s participatory, too, as visitors can tell their own stories into one of several re

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