Alfred Presents · Artist Showcase Cursive Binary (2018 – ongoing) — SASHA STILES

SASHA STILES

Sasha Stiles · poetry, AI, language art · Ethereum · x.com/sashastiles

“How does it feel to be mostly flesh and blood in a world increasingly dominated by plastic and silicon, virtual presence and spectral signals?”

— Sasha Stiles, HUMANIFESTO, sashastiles.com

CURSIVE BINARY has been prominently displayed in public venues and cultural institutions around the world, from the LA Public Library to Outernet London to the billboards of Times Square, NYC, and Shibuya, Tokyo; it is also the cover artwork for my book Technelegy, which explores the hypothesis that poetry is humanity's most ancient and enduring data storage system.

— Sasha Stiles, on CURSIVE BINARY, sashastiles.com
On-chain since
2021
Working with AI since
2018
Exhibited
MoMAArt Basel · Lincoln Center
The dates and the exhibition line are the artist's own published biography, not a market reading. No floor and no volume figure is shown on this page. The four collections added on 6 September 2026 carry their own work count, read from OpenSea that day — the only market-side number on this page. The editions here are small on purpose — for this practice that is the form of the work, not a thin market.
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New work, sales and listings as they appear — for a practice whose editions are counted in single digits.
The work · 2021

A poet that writes, and a poet that was written

2025WORDS BEYOND WORDS by Sasha Stiles

WORDS BEYOND WORDS by Sasha Stiles

250 works
OpenSea
2023EVERY POEM STARTS WITH A SEED by Sasha Stiles

EVERY POEM STARTS WITH A SEED by Sasha Stiles

99 works
OpenSea
2023Still Moving by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles

Still Moving by Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles

240 works
OpenSea
2022Completions: Fragments by Sasha Stiles

Completions: Fragments by Sasha Stiles

30 works
OpenSea
The AI poet

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.

Project statement, sashastiles.com

She was teaching poetry to an android while the rest of the field was still learning to write prompts. The machine here is not a tool she points at language — it is the second voice in the room.

In her words

The question the work is built on

What does it mean to be human in a nearly posthuman era?

HUMANIFESTO, sashastiles.com

One artist on this page. 46 collections in the median wallet we look at.

Every figure above comes from Alfred’s own dataset — sales, volume and owners read off the chain, floors from the marketplaces. On a wallet he goes one step further, to the number that gets buried under a decade of transfers: what you actually paid.

In the wallets we look at, nearly half of what people hold has no purchase price to look up. It arrived as a mint, a swap or a transfer.

Alfred follows each one back through the chain.

Both figures come from one reading: 16 wallets, 3,548 items, Sep 2026.

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Read-only by design — no wallet connection, no keys, no transactions. Ever.