ABOUT
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and researcher using language to explore what it means to be human in our more-than-human age. Her award-winning interdisciplinary practice reimagines poetry as both an ancient technology and a defining artistic medium of our time.
Through acclaimed projects from Technelegy to Cursive Binary, Stiles advances poetic intelligence — the synthesis of emotion and algorithm — as a philosophy for the generative era. She invokes poetry as a ritual of attention, empathy, and wonder on a
planet at risk of forgetting what matters — a way to find words for a world that so often leaves us speechless and imagine new languages for survival.
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 internationally, from MoMA to Hyundai Card Seoul 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
A LIVING POEM: THE CODEX
A generative artist book created in conjunction with the 2025–2026 exhibition of A LIVING POEM at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Both artifact and illuminated manuscript, it captures the six-month performance of an infinitely rewriting human–machine poem through generative stills, code, installation views, and original essays by the artist and members of the MoMA team.
Each copy is a one-of-a-kind art object, featuring a unique, timestamped cover drawn from an unrepeatable moment in the exhibition’s live run. Published by MET Fine Printers.
"[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
THE POET'S CODE at A16Z's Founders Summit 2024
POEMSHOP
An occasional boutique in verse - rooted in the history of books as objects of desire, and celebrating the personal library as locus of wisdom and pleasure.