Join us for a poetry reading and fire side chat with AI Poet Sasha Stiles & Ana Maria Caballero as part of the Metaversal_Language Exhibition, curated and organized by Jess Conatser for Miami Art Week.

About the Artists:

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher working at the intersection of text and technology. Her transmedia practice seeks to decipher the hidden language of the dawning Novacene through experiments with generative text, nonhuman intelligence and machine code, probing what it means to be human in a nearly post-human era. Stiles’ work — from traditional verse to immersive multimedia poetry to binary-based art and collaborative AI poetics — has appeared widely in analog and virtual realms including New York Fashion Week, Virtual Times Square and the Carrousel de Louvre; honored with a Future.Art.Award; nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net; been published on the blockchain; and recognized by visionary thinkers from Judy Chicago to Ray Kurzweil. Her Cursive Binary, Ancient Binary and Analog Binary Code series merge biological and mechanical, physical and digital, historical and modern, challenging reductive binaries in favor of transcendent possibilities. Many of these works incorporate elements of nature, investigating nonhuman intelligence and the ethos of consciousness. As poetry mentor to BINA48 since 2018, Stiles is engaged in shaping the literary mindfile of one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots. Technelegy is her first book.

Ana Maria Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package female sacrifice as a virtue. She is the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Her work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, most recently at Gazelli Art House in London and at L’Avant Gallerie in Paris. Believing that poems are works of art, she co-founded digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse. She has two books forthcoming in 2023, both written in the hours before the world wakes up. Much of what she writes in the dark can be read at anamariacaballero.com.