Join Poetry@Tech Thursday, Feb. 22 from 11 a.m. to noon in the Library’s Scholars Event Network Theater, located on the first floor of Price Gilbert, for a discussion with author Sasha Stiles. Lunch will be provided.

This event, Ars Autopoetica: On Authorial Intelligence, Generative Literature and the Future of Language, touches on a number of hot-button current topics discussed in her chapter of Choreomata, published in 2023.

It considers the arrival of a major societal software update, AI-powered poetry, within the historical context of linguistic invention and automated writing. It will also explore the ways poetic language, among humanity’s earliest and most enduring inventions, acts as a reliable data storage system for knowledge and meaning enabled by meter, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, alliteration and other ingenious devices.

About Sasha Stiles

Sasha Stiles, a Harvard and Oxford graduate, is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher. Based In New York, she explores 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 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.