FOUR CORE TEXTS

FOUR CORE TEXTS is a quartet of transhuman poems powered by the ever-evolving technology of language – a generative literary gesamtkunstwerk composed with four forms of AI. Presented in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen and MakersPlace.

In this collection, Stiles leverages her AI-powered alter ego, Technelegy – a customized LLM (large language model) that she has been training and collaborating with since 2018 – as co-author, family historian, multilingual translator, scribe, bookmaker, illustrator and polyphonic spoken word performer. Cutting-edge technology gives voice to ancestral lineage, language and lyric folklore, honoring poetry’s roots in oral tradition while embodying the visceral, immersive possibilities of more-than-human storysharing.

Fusing Stiles’ ancestral heritage with a longtime interest in futurity, FOUR CORE TEXTS marries ancient rhythms with algorithmic cadence in a quest for meaning in our posthuman age.