Verse Talks 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/sashastiles
A Living Poem: https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5839