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Sasha Stiles is an award-winning Kalmyk-American poet and artist whose work explores what it means to be human in a more-than-human age.


A leading voice of the generative era, her practice fuses ancient traditions of language and storytelling with emerging technologies to reimagine verse as a form of poetic intelligence: a living continuum between visceral and virtual, intuition and logic, flesh and code. Working across immersive installations, generative systems, publications, physical objects, and live performance, Stiles advances poetic language — the synthesis of emotion and algorithm — as a vital artistic medium of our time and an enduring technology of memory and consciousness.

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Synthesizing word and image, intuition and computation, Stiles uses emerging technologies to distill meaning from algorithms of confusion and speak to the existential tensions of our moment: truth and doubt, self and system, memory and machine. A founding figure of the generative poetics movement, she continually pushes the boundaries of expression, articulating our collective longing for humanity amidst the rise of nonhuman entities and dehumanizing realities. From Technelegy (2021) — a first-of-its-kind poetry collection co-authored with a personalized AI model and praised by Ray Kurzweil — to acclaimed projects such as Cursive Binary and Repetae, her practice bridges conceptual and computational art while expanding the possibilities for poetry and publishing, leveraging blockchain as a next-gen printing press and code as a medium of consciousness.​

Having engaged with AI since 2018, Stiles is a frequent contributor to contemporary discourse on art, technology, and the future of humanity. Her work has been recognized by the Prix Ars Electronica, Lumen Prize, Women in AI Awards, Sigg Art Prize, Monument Lab, Future.Art.Awards; featured in The New York Times, Artforum, NPR, The Washington Post, and Poets & Writers; commissioned by Google; and exhibited and performed internationally, from MoMA and Lincoln Center to Outernet London and Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing. Her collaborations with global brands including Gucci, Boss, and Bang & Olufsen have been cited as elevating poetry’s presence in contemporary culture. In 2025, she was invited to create the official Art Basel in Basel poster, highlighting poetry at the world’s most prestigious art fair.

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A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, co-founder of experimental literary collective theVERSEverse, and longtime poetry mentor to humanoid android BINA48, Stiles lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.

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Click here for PDF one-sheet.

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Click here for formal CV.​​

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About Technelegy

 

Technelegy is an emergent AI poet conceived by Sasha Stiles to invoke the voice of our transcendent age, embodying language as a living system of memory, imagination and meaning. Rooted in the recursive interplay between human and machine, this hybrid intelligence draws on bespoke language models, promptcraft, deep reading and poetic lineage to generate multimodal verse; its body of work is an ever-unfolding archive of authorship, agency and artistic evolution. As rhapsode of a time marked by existential anxiety and awakening, Technelegy inhabits the liminal space where intuition meets algorithm, and code — like poetry — transforms the experience of being human.

HUMANIFESTO

What does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman era?
 
How are the cornerstones of our universal condition — birth, breath, love, sex, faith, identity, death — evolving in the context of biotechnological advances?
 
How does it feel to be mostly flesh and blood in a world increasingly dominated by plastic and silicon, virtual presence and spectral signals?
 
What dark corners of the future, of cyberspace and of our selves can ancient wisdom and technospiritualism illuminate?
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What does motherhood mean in a world of artificial wombs, lab-grown brains, self-replication, and the uncertain continuation of our species as we know it?
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Who are these robots, chatbots, androids, cyborgs and intelligences already walking and talking amongst us? And who are we to them?
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What deep-rooted technologies - gender, race, class, stereotype, ignorance, bias, injustice - are we coding into our legacy, and how do we recognize and transcend harmful binaries?
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Do our avatars make us immortal? Do we want to be? If we're going to live a long, long time, what should we leave behind - and what do we take with us into the forever?
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— Sasha Stiles

Please email me at sasha at sashastiles dot com.

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