Sasha Stiles (born 1980) is an American artist and poet. After discovering natural language processing, she debuted her AI-powered alter-ego Technelegy, creating the 2021 poetry collection Technelegy and the 2025-2026 installation A Living Poem. In addition to artificial intelligence, binary code and non-fungible tokens have been important aspects of her work.

Stiles was born in 1980 in Pasadena, California,^[1] to documentary filmmaker parents whose work includes Cosmos: A Personal Voyage.^[2] She was interested in science fiction during her youth, particularly how they addressed human-machine collaboration and posthumanism.^[3] She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2002 and she graduated with high honors from the University of Oxford with a Master of Studies in 2004.^[1]

Originally, Stiles' poetry focused on technology.^[3] In 2017, she discovered natural language processing, piquing her interest in its ability to process thoughts and words comparably to its human counterparts.^[3] Despite lacking a technological background, she managed to channel people like Gwern Branwen, Ross Goodwin, and Allison Parrish as inspirations for her AI work,^[3] and in 2019, she debuted Technelegy, an alter-ego powered by AI that appears in her work.^[4] In 2021, Black Spring Press published her poetry collection Technelegy, where she combines AI-generated content produced by the titular alter-ego with her own traditionally-created work;^[5] the AI-generated content was produced by processing Stiles' own poetry onto GPT-2 and GPT-3.^[6] She and Technelegy later co-created A Living Poem, which ran at the Museum of Modern Art's Hyundai Card Digital Wall from September 2025 to March 2026.^[7][8]

Stiles also has used non-fungible tokens as a platform for her poetry,^[6] having been inspired to go into blockchain by her experiences working with a metaverse exhibition curated by Jess Conatser.^[3] She has used Christie's and SuperRare to sell several of her poems as tokenized real-world assets,^[6] including Daughter of E.V.E. (Ex-Vivo Uterine Environment), a 2021 single-channel video using freeze-frame shots to hide poetry.^[4] In 2021, she co-founded TheVerseVerse (stylized as theVERSEverse), a non-fungible token gallery specializing in poetry.^[6] She later created Four Core Texts: Humanifesto and Other Poems, involving four NFT videos of poetry written in looping handwriting and powered by Technelegy.^[4]

Stiles uses binary code as an inspiration for her work, citing in part its "quite antagonistic system of a binary 'EITHER / OR'", which she connected to several dichotomies pitting humanity and the present against technology and the future.^[3] In 2018, she started Analog Binary Code, where she creates sculptures by arranging objects in binary code ciphers.^[3] She also created Cursive Binary, where she combines binary with cursive handwriting,^[9] after writing zeros and ones on a steamed wall while showering.^[3]

Stiles and the robot BINA48 co-created the 2020 ArtYard exhibition A Valentine for the Future.^[10] She was part of the 2021 group exhibition Computational Poetics at the Beall Center for Art and Technology.^[6] From 24 February to 18 March 2023, she held her solo show Binary Odes (stylized as B1NARY 0DES) at Annka Kultys Gallery.^[11] By 2024, her work had appeared in places such as Gucci storefronts and Times Square billboards.^[4] She designed Words Beyond Words, the official poster for Art Basel in Basel 2025.^[12]

Stiles is based in Milford, New Jersey, where she lives with her husband, musician Kris Bones.^[13] She has also lived in Jersey City and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.^[14] She is Kalmyk-American on her mother's side,^[13][14] and she has also announced plans to create a version of Technelegy in her ancestral language Kalmyk.^[4]