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
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The work · 2021

A poet that writes, and a poet that was written

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

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