Sasha Stiles: Technology, Authorship & Creativity

Sasha Stiles is a poet, artist and AI researcher who is widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature and language art. She is the recipient of a Future Art Award and has been nominated for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is also a co-founder of the digital poetry gallery, theVERSEverse.
Recorded on February 16, 2024 as a Space on X.
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:36) Tradition of Sending AI-Generarted Valentines
(06:37) Poetry & Books that Influenced Sasha's Love for Language
(10:13) Finding a Balance Between Time Spent Offline & Online
(13:24) Poetry as the Original Blockchain
(19:24) Technelegy, Sasha's Evolving AI Alter Ego
(25:16) Relationship with Technelegy
(28:49) Repetition & Patterns in Generative Language & Poetry
(35:30) Impact of Technology on Authorship and Creativity
(42:53) Significance of Daughter of E.V.E.
(47:26) Meaning behind Every Poem Starts with a Seed
(52:42) Influence of Kalmyk Heritage on Artistic Career
(56:36) Value of Friction in the Process of Collecting Art
(59:55) Writer & Artist Recommendations from Sasha
(1:04:33) Outro