Technelegy, Sasha Stiles & Nathaniel Stern

Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles both have independent art practices, yet they frequently collaborate with one another on various projects. This series of works titled ‘Corporeal Aphorisms’ is a collection of UV prints on aluminium honeycomb boards. Working with AI and GPT to kickstart and provoke the poetic strands presented in these prints, this series tussles out the entangled place of the soul within the mind/body dynamic. The role of technology within this process reflects both artists’ ongoing commitment to exploring the emotive, humanlike potential of technology. Nathaniel Stern has been working at the intersections of art, design, engineering and environmental research for over 25 years. He produces, writes and teaches digital art and in his own words he “encourages engineers to think like artists, and for artists to think like engineers”. Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, literary artist, AI researcher, and author. A pioneer of algorithmic authorship, blockchain poetics, and publishing innovation, Stiles is also a co-founder of theVERSEverse, a literary NFT gallery. Describing herself as a ‘meta-poet’, Stiles fuses text and technology to probe what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman era.