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SASHA STILES
Sasha Stiles a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher working at the intersection of text and technology. Stiles’ work considers what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman era, while exploring the future possibilities of more-than human storytelling through language and image.
Ancient Binary: “I tell you someone will remember us in the future”
(After Sappho)
2019
Oil, acrylic, pencil, and chalk on canvas
101.5 x 76 cm
(40 x 30 in)
Unique
(SSti001.19)
SOLD
Ancient Binary: “Poema pictura loquens”
2019
Oil, acrylic, pencil, and chalk on canvas
101.5 x 76 cm
(40 x 30 in)
Unique (SSti002.19)
SOLD
Stiles has been recognized as a leading figure in the emergent fields of generative literature and language art. Her work merges poetry, art, code, web3, and AI-generated art, coupled with moving image, painting, and drawing, to create dynamic multimedia projects that speculate on poetry as code, and code as poetry.
Ancient Binary: “Poema pictura silens”
2019
Oil, acrylic, pencil, and chalk on canvas
101.5 x 76 cm
(40 x 30 in)
Unique
(SSti003.19)
GBP 4,000 (exc. VAT)
Cursive Binary: “Motherboard begets brainchild”
2021
Oil, chalk and acrylic on canvas
101.5 x 76 cm
(40 x 30 in)
Unique
(SSti004.21)
GBP 4,000 (exc. VAT)
By working across space and time – combining the first human records of oral storytelling with collaborative human-AI writing processes – Stiles expands poetry’s potential as a world-making practice. By bringing a multilayered, polyphonic intelligence to binary code, Stiles opens up the possibility for a more-than-human poetics.
Cursive Binary: “I’m data’s girl”
2021
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
(20 x 16 in)
Unique
(SSti005.21)
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Cursive Binary: “Cogito ergo sumthing”
2021
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
(20 x 16 in)
Unique
(SSti006.21)
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Cursive Binary: “Hot blood. Cold metal.”
2021
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
(20 x 16 in)
Unique
(SSti007.21)
GBP 2,000 (exc. VAT)
RESERVED
Cursive Binary: “Do you understand?”
2021
Acrylic on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm
(20 x 16 in)
Unique
(SSti008.21)
GBP 2,000 (exc. VAT)
Since 2018, Stiles has been collaborating with Technelegy, the artist’s “AI alter ego” and custom text generation model powered by OpenAI’s AI-powered large language model, GPT-3. By training her alter ego on her own poetry as well as the billions of parameters making up the neural network architecture of GPT-3, Stiles sits at the forefront of a truly collaborative and expanded human-machine creative practice.
Cursive Binary: “My brain has crawled halfway to my heart.”
2020
Ink on watercolour paper
38 x 28 cm
(15 x 11 in)
Unique
(SSti009.20)
SOLD
Cursive Binary: “Are you ready for the future?”
2020
Ink on watercolour paper
38 x 28 cm
(15 x 11 in)
Unique
(SSti010.20)
SOLD
Cursive Binary: “Poema pictura loquens” (ink study)
2020
Ink on watercolour paper
38 x 28 cm
(15 x 11 in)
Unique
(SSti011.20)
SOLD
Cursive Binary: “Poema pictura silens” (ink study)
2020
Ink on watercolour paper
38 x 28 cm
(15 x 11 in)
Unique
(SSti012.20)
SOLD
2021
MP4, (colour, no sound)
0 min 45 sec
Dimensions variable
Edition of 100
(SSti015.23)
25tez
Cursive Binary : Fragment 2
2021
MP4, (colour, no sound)
0 min 45 sec
Dimensions variable
Edition of 100
(SSti016.23)
25tez
Cursive Binary : Fragment 3
2021
MP4, (colour, no sound)
0 min 45 sec
Dimensions variable
Edition of 100
(SSti017.23)
25tez
