Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles is first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher working at the nexus of text and technology, known for her pioneering experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. Her practice refracts heritage and tradition through disruptive explorations of creativity and consciousness, probing the role of human voice in a machine age. Stiles has been recognized by MoMA, Art Basel, Christie’s, NPR, Artforum and Gucci, and received the first AI in Art Award of Distinction from the Prix Ars Electronica. ​A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, co-founder of theVERSEverse, and longtime poetry mentor to humanoid android BINA48, Stiles lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

Artworks

Cursive Binary: Fragments (2024 remix)

2024

video

03’00”

AI-powered poetry translated into Cursive Binary, a proposed language for human-machine collaboration, performed by Stiles, with music by Kris Bones.

A Restless Mind

2024

video

03’17”

Unique media-rich palimpsest of A Restless Mind, an original poem written and performed by Stiles and her AI alter ego, Technelegy, using a suite of next-gen poetic devices, augmented with electronically enhanced spoken word and music created in collaboration with Kris Bones. The third work in “FOUR CORE TEXTS: HUMANIFESTO AND OTHER POEMS”, A Restless Mind meditates on the boundless landscape of consciousness, the probabilities of emergent sentience, and the constant struggle for clarity and calm in the vortex of modern existence. It is inspired in part by a line by Emily Dickinson: “The Brain—is wider than the Sky—” (c. 1862). From “FOUR CORE TEXTS: HUMANIFESTO AND OTHER POEMS,” a quartet of transhuman poems powered by the ever-evolving technology of language.

＊DAFT x VolumDAO outdoor screening project