Sasha Stiles (US)

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American artist and poet of Oirat-Mongol descent whose work uses language to explore what it means to be human in a more-than-human age. A leading voice of the generative era, she advances poetry as a vital artistic medium and enduring technology of memory and consciousness — a form of poetic intelligence that bridges emotion and algorithm, intuition and logic, flesh and code.

Working across immersive installations, generative systems, artist books, publications, physical objects, and live performance, Stiles traces a throughline from ancient traditions of orality and inscription to the technocultural landscape of the twenty-first century. Her practice centers language at a moment of profound transformation, as it evolves from mass media into a networked, recursive, and increasingly synthetic environment. Engaging both the exhilaration and unease of this shift, she uses poetry to distill meaning from noise, interrogating language as both a flawed interface and a powerful force for connection, collaboration, and survival.

Since 2018, Stiles has worked closely with artificial intelligence as both subject and collaborator, developing hybrid creative systems that expand the possibilities of authorship and expression. Her landmark collection Technelegy (2021), created in dialogue with a personalized AI model, helped define a new paradigm for human-machine co-creation. Subsequent projects — including Cursive Binary, Repetae, Heart Mantras, and A Living Poem — position AI not as spectacle, but as a continuation of humanity’s oldest linguistic impulses, while probing its ethical and existential implications.

Recognized for its clarity, emotional resonance, and conceptual rigor, Stiles’ work offers new ways to think, feel, and make meaning in a rapidly changing world. Her projects have been exhibited and performed internationally at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, Art Basel, Lincoln Center, and Outernet London. She is the recipient of honors including the Prix Ars Electronica and the Lumen Prize, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Poets & Writers, and NPR. Stiles has collaborated with cultural and technology partners including Google Arts & Culture, Gucci, Bang & Olufsen, and Monument Lab. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford and co-founderof theVERSEverse, she has also served as a longtime poetry mentor to the humanoid android BINA48, reflecting her deep engagement with diverse forms of intelligence. She lives and works near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.