[ Generative ]
Still Moving
Sasha Stiles
Still Moving exhibited in Marfa, TX
This 400-piece series of an interactive, AI-powered poem was created in collaboration with Nathaniel Stern and was Curated Release on ArtBlocks. The mint was closed with a final edition number of 240.
About the Project
What does it mean to be a human body facing a machine: a showdown, a form of worship, a distraction, a mirror gaze, an other, an alter, an alter? After we bend to our technologies, do we spring back into shape, or assume new forms? Where does input end, and output begin? As we continue to think, work, and play faster than ever while rooted in place, it is still possible to be moved – really moved?
The first project of its kind, STILL MOVING is an interactive poem about humanity’s visceral engagement with the virtual – written and published via blockchain as a token word performance, embodied by each collector as an intimate, personalized interpretation.
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About The Artist
Sasha Stiles, a Harvard and Oxford graduate, resides near New York City. She is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher, exploring the intersection of text and technology, and is known for her pioneering experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. In late 2021, Stiles released her debut book, Technelegy, co-authored by a custom AI-powered text generator; the book probes how technology has made us more and more human over time, and explores both the exhilaration and danger of our intimate relationship with the digital. Praised by Ray Kurzweil, among others, Technelegy serves as a touchstone for Stiles' ongoing investigations of the posthuman. A co-founder of theVERSEverse, a web3 gallery and writers' collective, Stiles showcases her multidimensional, transdisciplinary pieces in physical and virtual exhibitions worldwide. Her vision for the future of poetry goes beyond the literary and artistic to encompass the role that linguistic innovations have always played in the development of human consciousness, and the augmentation of human imagination.