If You Find a Little Pinecone on the Street

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

A triptych of new multimedia works by award-winning poet and language artist Sasha Stiles, composed of three 1-minute mp4 adaptations of the AI-generated verse. Excerpted from the long poem Every Poem Starts with a Seed, each stanza invites contemplation of the relationship between organic creativity and synthetic imagination and explores how poetic language, like data, can store and transmit meaning across space and time. Having collaborated with AI since 2018, Stiles is known for her pioneering experiments with personalised data sets and custom models fine-tuned on her own writing. In this trio of silent, meditative pieces, she and her AI alter ego muse, together, reflect on the role of the human voice in an increasingly post-human age, and on the ancient, ageless impulse to encode and share wisdom, emotion, and memory.