Again, Again
REPETAE is a hybrid language art series that fuses algorithm and poetry to explore repetition as a powerful tool for generating new meanings, emotions and insights. It is an ode to the transformative power of poetry, generative art and AI, inviting audiences to consider the endless possibilities that arise from revisiting, reimagining and reinventing the familiar.
REPETAE: AGAIN, AGAIN (2023) is a significant work in this series, published as a multimedia artwork in collaboration with Gucci.
Rooted in poetic tradition, REPETAE embodies the idea that poetic language and its emotional impact are characterized by and achieved through the development and subversion of pattern. The project leverages a suite of generative elements—AI-powered language, code-based visuals, digitally looped and layered spoken word—in standalone works and longer, interconnected cycles that seek to illuminate how recursion, revisitation and reconsideration shape our engagement with art, and the world around us.
Site-specific performance of REPETAE: AGAIN, AGAIN, at the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, 2023. © National Taichung Theater with thanks to Gucci.
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REPETAE, Still from REPETAE: AGAIN, AGAIN, photo: Sasha Stiles
Site-specific installation of REPETAE: AGAIN, AGAIN, at the Gucci showroom in Milan, Italy, 2023. © Gucci.
Taken together, REPETAE explores the act of repetition not as mere duplication but as a creative and generative process, opening up fresh pathways of interpretation and experience. The project invites us to consider the spatial, temporal and philosophical dimensions of repetition as reinvention, prompting reflection on the role of algorithm in the deeply human act of making art.
Bio
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Photo: Kris BonesSasha Stiles
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Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher probing the intersection of text and technology. Widely recognized as a pioneer of generative literature, Stiles’ work has been featured by MoMA, Art Forum, Christie’s and Art Basel, and published and exhibited around the globe. A co-founder of theVERSEverse, she has served as Poetry Mentor to the AI humanoid BINA48 since 2018. Stiles resides near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.
Credits
Works from REPETAE have been featured by Kunstmuseum Bern, Gucci Art Program, Christie’s, Venus Over Manhattan, NYC, Tribute to Herbert W. Franke, Right Click Save: The New Digital Art Community (Vetro Editions, 2024), Decentralization, Please Save Culture (New Society, 2023), Outland, This is Paper. REPETAE: AGAIN, AGAIN originated in collaboration with Gucci and is exhibited courtesy of Devang Thakkar.