About this Event
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and language artist whose work explores what it means to be human in a more-than-human world. Her interdisciplinary practice reimagines poetry as an ancient technology and a living computational medium, advancing poetic intelligence — the synthesis of emotion and algorithm — as a philosophy for the generative age. Her work has been honored with the Prix Ars Electronica and Lumen Prize, featured in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, and Artforum, and exhibited internationally, including at MoMA and Art Basel. A recent Monument Lab Fellow and Google Arts & Culture Artist-in-Residence, she has been co-evolving with her AI alter ego, Technelegy, since 2018.
This lecture is presented with support from the Dorothy Lemelson Foundation.
Event Details:
Friday, October 2, 2026
6pm-7:30
In PNCA’s First Floor Mediatheque
This lecture will be live streamed via the PNCA Youtube Channel. Link will be available a few hours before the lecture begins.
Art, Aura & the Algorithm: PNCA's 2026 Symposium
Schedule Overview, October 1-3, 2026
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1
5-8pm
First Thursday Exhibition Openings
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• Symposium Exhibition
• Aura photographs with Aura Archive
• PTXM Artist-Led Sewing Circle
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2
10am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
10-11:30am
Virtual Panel: Whither Aura: Profaning, Reclaiming, Preserving
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11:45am-12:30pm
AI Séance Performance
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1:30-3pm
Academic Faculty Panel: AI, Agency, and the Politics of Futurity
3-4:30pm
Creative Research Panel: BY WHOSE AUTHORITY?
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6pm-7:30pm
Keynote Lecture: Sasha Stiles (Dorothy Lemelson Lecture)
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3
1-3pm
Workshop: WHEN LANGUAGE COMES ALIVE: A LIVING POEM WITH SASHA STILES
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Event venue & nearby stays
Pacific Northwest College of Art, 511 Northwest Broadway, Portland, United States
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