A LIVING POEM

2026 Special Commendation Award Winner

Sasha Stiles
Milford, USA

First presented at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, A LIVING POEM is an immersive generative language environment bringing poetry, voice, visuals, code, and AI together in a work that continuously rewrites and performs itself. Created in collaboration with Stiles' AI alter ego, Technelegy, the work advances her idea of “poetic intelligence,” the intertwining of emotion and algorithm to make meaning, as a way of considering how technology might deepen rather than diminish our humanity.