Sasha Stiles

United States of America

Sasha Stiles a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and language art. ​Her award-winning work fuses elements of poetry, art, code, AI, digital humanities and web3 creativity to probe what it means to be human in a nearly posthuman era.


Stiles is the author of the “instant techno classic” poetry collection, Technelegy (Black Spring Press Group, 2021), and has been named “perhaps the leading blockchain poet” by Right Click Save, as well as one of the top 10 NFT artists to watch in 2023. Her work is available via many of the world’s top platforms, including fxhash, Quantum, SuperRare, Objkt, Foundation, Nifty Gateway, Artsy, and Infinite Objects. In 2022, she became the first writer to bring AI-powered literature to a major auction house when her poem, “COMPLETION: When it’s just you,” sold at Christie’s. Other honors include a Future Art Award, nominations for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and finalist status for the Christopher Smart Prize and Palette Emerging Poet Prize.


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The Salvages

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Written, performed and visualized by Sasha Stiles and Technelegy.

Original music and sound design by Kris Bones.


1/1 media-rich poem by Pushcart Prize-nominated writer/artist Sasha Stiles and her AI alter ego, Technelegy -- a custom text generator trained by Stiles on her own poetry and reference materials.


Stiles wrote the first half of this poem in 2016, without AI input; that version was published in the prestigious literary journal Copper Nickel. In 2019-2020, she tasked Technelegy with writing the poem again, starting with the same first line (a nod to the opening of The Dry Salvages, part three of "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot). This generative text translation from the human into the transhuman appears in Stiles' first book, Technelegy (Black Spring Press Group); it became this video poem in 2021, and was minted as a unique NFT edition in October 2022.

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