Meet the Speakers
Sasha Stiles
Artist and Poet
Sasha Stiles is a Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and researcher whose practice explores what it means to be human in a more-than-human age. A founding figure in generative creativity, she bridges conceptual and computational art to reimagine poetry as a form of living intelligence where intuition and algorithm converge, and a defining medium of the digital age. Her approach illuminates the encoded, recursive logics of hybrid authorship, revealing Al as fundamentally a linguistic technology, and traces how the evolution of voice from orality to literacy to generativity has reshaped culture and consciousness. Stiles has been honored by the Prix Ars Electronica and Lumen Prize; featured in The New York Times and Artforum; and exhibited around the globe, from MoMA to Gucci to Art Basel. She is co-founder of the VERSEverse and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, and has served as Poetry Mentor to the Al humanoid BINA48 since 2018.