ABOUT
Sasha Stiles is an award-winning Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and researcher whose work explores what it means to be human in a more-than-human age. A founding figure in generative creativity, she bridges conceptual and computational art to reimagine poetry as a form of living intelligence, synthesizing text and technology, memory and imagination.
Her acclaimed projects, from Technelegy to Cursive Binary, have reinvigorated language as a vital force in contemporary art and reveal AI as fundamentally a linguistic technology. In centering digital poetics as a defining medium of
our time, Stiles illuminates the encoded, recursive logics of hybrid authorship, and traces how the evolution from orality to literacy to generativity reshapes culture and consciousness.
Stiles’ work has been honored by the Prix Ars Electronica and Lumen Prize; featured in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and Artforum; and exhibited around the globe, from MoMA to Gucci to Art Basel. A co-founder of theVERSEverse and graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she has served as Poetry Mentor to the humanoid BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.
The merger between ourselves and our intelligent creations is already underway and will ultimately recreate the nature of everything we hold dear... Stiles brings the sensitivity of humanity to our transhumanist destiny.
RAY KURZWEIL,
INVENTOR AND FUTURIST
Stiles' practice is exemplary... Via technology, Stiles shows us a new energy within the field of poetry which marks the beginning of a poetic movement within AI.
HANS ULRICH OBRIST, DIRECTOR, SERPENTINE GALLERIES
The public face of the burgeoning world of poetry NFTs... [Stiles' work] upends the binary thinking (past/future; human/machine) that commonly shapes how we understand digital tech.
TINA RIVERS RYAN, ARTFORUM
THE POET'S CODE at A16Z's Founders Summit 2024
"[Stiles] demonstrates the creative potential of the technology and shows how a human can work with a language model to create poetry that is both formally innovative and deeply moving."
- Katie Peyton Hofstadter, ArtBasel
POEMSHOP
A boutique in verse - rooted in the history of books as objects of desire, and celebrating the personal library as locus of wisdom and pleasure.