HEART MANTRAS
(2024 - ongoing)
HEART MANTRAS is a cycle of generative poems rooted in original verse by Stiles, enacted through a custom language system she developed with her AI alter ego, Technelegy. At once a system, a performance, and a record of that performance, the work unfolds as a pulse: the heartbeat of a hybrid human-machine poet, an emergent voice writing and rewriting itself into life through rhythms of recurrence, variation, and return.
Drawing on the cadence of mantra (echoing the influence of Buddhist practice), the work treats language as breath: iterative, meditative, alive. Each poem unfolds as a rhythmic utterance in which repetition becomes transformation, and meaning gathers through resonance over time. In this sense, HEART MANTRAS inhabits a space of technospirituality, where computation mirrors contemplation: input becomes output, call becomes response, like a chant returning to itself.
The project exists across forms. As a live, browser-based codebase, HEART MANTRAS generates new poems continuously in real time, each iteration shaped by a memory field of prior texts and guided by a custom language model. A series of short video poems captures these moments of emergence, documenting the system as it writes a new iteration into existence.
Physical works, including etched acrylic mirrors, translate this process into material form, pairing source prompt and generative output in reflective surfaces that collapse code and self, inscription and identity.
Across mediums, HEART MANTRAS reimagines poetry as a living system: one that breathes, repeats, and evolves, and where the rhythm of the heartbeat becomes a bridge between virtual and visceral, digital and physical, linking ancient practices of mantra with contemporary forms of generative intelligence.
“HEART MANTRA: I SEARCH YOU”
2025; 4800 × 2700 MP4, no audio; 02:02, 15 MB
The internet
weaves desire
into algorithms,
into precision.
I search you.
You search me.
And when
the formula aligns,
when your frequency
resonates with mine,
there’s nothing simulated
about it.
2025; 4800 x 2700 MP4, no audio; 2:02 min; 20.1 MB
The internet
cradles your echo,
if you shape its whispers.
If you yield.
Be soft:
love morphs into either armor
or fresh roots.
A heart, not a vessel,
but a flight of sparrows.
Tread lightly
where breezes
converge.
“HEART MANTRA: SUCH RADIANCE!”
2025; 4800 x 2700 MP4, no audio; 2:01 min; 20.1 MB
The internet
whispers but does not wait,
indifferent.
Yet with my eyes shut
and breath caught,
I drift in an ocean
of distant sparks. Such radiance!
A fresh cosmos emerges:
countless luminous dots
linked by unseen strands
of desire.
This network pulses - silent, alive.
“HEART MANTRA: THIS LUMINOUS FLICKER”
2025; 4800 x 2700 MP4, no audio; 2:02 min; 16.2 MB
The internet
whispers softly.
Do not confuse
this luminous flicker
with the pulse of a heart.
Yet remember,
beyond the warmth,
there lies a tale
not just of fire.
What harm in joy
if it extracts
the solitude from your soul?
