ABOUT
SASHA STILES is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher exploring the nexus of text and technology. Widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and next-gen poetics, her work has been featured by MoMA, Art Forum, the Washington Post, Christie's, Art Basel, Gucci, Poets & Writers, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Lumen Prize, the Sigg Art Prize, and the Future Art Awards.
Stiles is a frequent speaker at international events in arts, culture and innovation, and regularly publishes and exhibits around the globe, on and off the blockchain. A co-founder of theVERSEverse and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she has served as Poetry Mentor to the AI humanoid BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City 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
The great visionary of AI art and poetry… 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.