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The Museum of Modern Art presents Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM, on view at MoMA from September 10, 2025, through Spring 2026 in the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. As a part of MoMA’s ongoing partnership with Hyundai Card, Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM will also be on public display in Seoul starting on September 18 in the lobby of the company’s headquarters. This installation, presented across two continents, is a digital work that features the collective dialogue of Stiles and her alter ego, Technelegy, an AI poet trained to emulate and reimagine Stiles’s voice. Inspired by text-based works in MoMA’s collection, Stiles and Technelegy’s infinite poem continuously rewrites itself every 60 minutes. Powered by both the human mind and computer algorithms, the project brings together sensory elements such as vision, voice, and music.
With A LIVING POEM, Stiles explores the interplay between human and machine to expand the possibilities of language as a performative, living expression. Fluctuating between legibility and abstraction, the generative poem blends Stiles’s handwriting, multiple fonts, and binary code. One of the several fonts used is Cursive Binary, a unique creation of Stiles’s that uses her cursive handwriting to write a series of ones and zeros. Channeling poetry’s roots in oral tradition, Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM includes a one-hour audio experience comprised of spoken word and music in accompaniment to the visual elements of the project. This audio was developed by Stiles’s studio partner, Kris Bones, and is accessible on site through a QR code.
This digital poem is a continuation of MoMA and Hyundai Card’s longstanding partnership to support cultural and professional exchange, innovation, creativity, and artists’ projects through digital and on-site programs in both New York and Seoul. Hyundai Card has partnered with MoMA since 2006 to connect more people from around the world to the art of our time.
Sasha Stiles: A LIVING POEM is organized by Martha Joseph, Associate Curator, Department of Media and Performance, with Juyeon Song, Hyundai Card Exchange Visitor.
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Generated frame from Sasha Stiles, A LIVING POEM, 2025. Generative language system (original poetry, fragments from MoMA’s text-art collection, p5.js code, GPT-4) and sound. Courtesy of the artist
Generated frame from Sasha Stiles, A LIVING POEM, 2025. Generative language system (original poetry, fragments from MoMA’s text-art collection, p5.js code, GPT-4) and sound. Courtesy of the artist