Are You Ready for the Future? AI as Poetic Inquiry at Krasl Art Center

Artist - Sasha Stiles
Sasha Stiles. Cursive Binary: motherboard begets brainchild, 2020. Digital print, ink on paper.
Sasha Stiles. Cursive Binary: What I’ve created has never existed (After Enheduanna), 2020, pencil on paper.

 

Sasha Stiles Considers a Post-Human Reality at the Intersection of Art and Science.

 The Lab at Krasl Art Center (KAC) is a gallery space where artists can showcase experimentation, and that’s just what artist, poet, and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Sasha Stiles does. The exhibition of multi-media artwork will be on view from February 18 – April 16, 2023. Exhibitions are free and open to the public 11 am – 5 pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with extended hours Wednesday and Thursday; the galleries are closed Tuesdays and Sundays through March.

 

For poet and artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Sasha Stiles, poetry is a technology - a “data storage system” - that has helped humans express and remember ideas for centuries. The multi-media artist writes traditional verse, collaborates with AI robots, and creates artworks based in binary code. The resulting poems, photographs, installations, digital projections, and NFTs explore concepts of life, death, and immortality in a post-human world. 

 

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist, AI researcher, and co-founder of theVERSEverse, an NFT poetry gallery. As poetry mentor to BINA48 since 2018, she is engaged in shaping the literary mindfile of one of the world’s most advanced humanoid AI robots. Stiles’s cross-media work has been honored in the Future Art Awards, nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, Miami Art Week, SXSW, New York Fashion Week and Virtual Times Square, published as NFTs, and auctioned at Christie’s. 

 

KAC thanks their 2023 Exhibition Sponsors for bringing free exhibitions like this to Southwest Michigan: 98.3 The Coast, Boulevard Inn & Bistro, Honor Credit Union, Pella Windows and Doors of Northern Indiana, RMB Capital, Silver Beach Pizza, Starks Family Funeral Homes, Storage of America, Tyler Automotive, The John DeVries Insurance Agency, Kruggel Lawton CPAs.

 

EXHIBITION PROGRAMS

OPEN LAB WITH ARTIST SASHA STILES

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 6 – 8 PM

FREE and open to the public

 

ARTISTS IN DIALOGUE: NATHANIEL STERN & SASHA STILES

FEBRUARY 18, 10 AM - 12 PM

Pre-registered Event; free

 

To learn more about the exhibition and its related programs, visit krasl.org/sasha-stiles

 

About Krasl Art Center:

Krasl Art Center is a nonprofit art museum and learning center that enriches the lives of people living in or visiting Southwest Michigan by delivering enlightening art experiences through diverse education opportunities, meaningful events, and high-quality exhibits and collections. KAC’s mission is to Inspire Meaningful Change and Strengthen Community through the visual arts. To learn more, visit krasl.org.