AI Climate Justice Lab

Art by Amelia Winger-Bearskin, founder of AI Climate Justice Lab at the University of Florida.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma) is an artist who uses Artificial Intelligence as a creative medium and conceptual framework. Her practice addresses urgent global issues, from climate justice to homelessness, while revealing the moral codes that shape communities. She is the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Arts at the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida. She is also the founder of the AI Climate Justice Lab, the Talk To Me About Water Collective, and the Stupid Hackathon. Her work combines immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship. She is the creator of Wampum Codes and a former fellow of Stanford, Mozilla, and MIT’s Co-Creation Studio. Her projects have been featured at the Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Whitney Museum. Through art, code, and collaboration, she builds new tools for justice and imagination.