Sasha Stiles: poetry in the age of AI

00:42 - Welcome Sasha Stiles 04:55 - The foundations for an endless curiosity 09:50 - Connecting with Kalmyk art forms 13:40 - From academia to the arts 16:20 - New York, cultural absorption and parallel careers 19:05 - Living through pivotal technological shifts 21:52 - An ongoing cultural relationship with technology 23:20 - Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence and Attention Is All You Need 26:39 - The role of the writer and language in the wake of AI 28:29 - Talk to Transformer, early tooling and digital exploration 32:58 - Working with an AI co-author 33:40 - A constantly evolving data set 35:30 - Defining the art and shaping the system 38:26 - Loss of nuance online and the impact of live performance 41:40 - Identifying as an artist and blockchain as a multi-media printing press 48:20 - 2020 and people connecting online 52:00 - The importance of community and social media 54:38 - The role of a gallery in an artist's career 58:45 - The stresses of a financialized practice 01:00:45 - theVERSEverse and the growth of an experimental collective 01:06:56 - A Living Poem at MoMa 01:11:23 - Situating AI-powered verse in the tradition of text-based art 01:16:19 - Upcoming writing, work and special events at MoMa Sasha Stiles: https://x.com/sashastilesA Living Poem: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5839 https://theverseverse.com