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 

https://theverseverse.com