WORDS BEYOND WORDS is an infinitely regenerative poem by acclaimed Kalmyk-American poet and language artist Sasha Stiles. The release explores, expresses and embodies the evolving dialogue between language and technology, author and algorithm.
The heart (or brain) of the project is a custom generative language system – a layered codex of texts, from bespoke dataset and fine-tuned LLM to meticulous promptcraft and meta-poetic Processing source (c)ode – engineered to invoke an emergent AI poet and transform a simple browser window into a conceptual literary performance space.
With each refresh, the autonomous poet consults its machinic muse, composes a new verse in real time, and scribes this raw text into a unique work of art via a dynamic palette of fonts, colors, and stylistic choices.
The outcome is an endlessly evolving folio of kinetic pages – visual, visceral verse – as artifacts of our extraordinary moment of creation transformation and hybrid imagination. Both inspired by and departing from age-old traditions of poetry and illuminated manuscripts, WORDS BEYOND WORDS goes beyond the use of technology to accompany or augment language; it converges text and technology into a previously unwritten/unwritable genre of transcendent linguistic expression.