This groundbreaking exhibition illuminates the intertwined evolution of humanity and technology, inviting viewers to reconsider the relationship between humans and the tools we invent. By blending Artificial Intelligence with artistic expression, Generation to Generation cultivates new pathways for imagination while nurturing the roots of our creative inheritance, and the always-evolving dialogue between art and innovation. In the galleries viewers will find an immersive fusion of sculptures, prints, electronics, music, movement and poetry, all born from creative collaboration with AI. Artists Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles independently developed this project which premiers at Krasl Art Center.
Featured Artists
Dr. Nathaniel Stern is a full Professor of Art and Design, Mechanical Engineering, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "Technological, thought-provoking and unexpected" (NPR), he has been "investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art" (Scientific American) for more than 25 years. His interdisciplinary work across art, science, and activism has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, the state of Wisconsin, and several private foundations. His peer-reviewed books – Interactive Art and Embodiment: the Implicit Body as Performance (2013, Gylphi), and Ecological Aesthetics: artful tactics for humans, nature, and politics (2018, Dartmouth College Press) – are taught worldwide. Stern’s art has seen hundreds of international exhibits and reviews, both mainstream and academic. He has five amazing children and three terrible cats.
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, language artist, and AI researcher recognized for her visionary experiments with generative literature and blockchain poetics. Her transdisciplinary practice is rooted in the belief that poetry is both art form and technology — an ancient and enduring data system invented to encode human experience across space and time — and seamlessly fuses text and technology to probe what it means to be human in an increasingly posthuman era. Having collaborated with artificial intelligence since 2018, Stiles’ insights and innovations have earned her a place among the most influential contributors to our global discourse about the future of art, technology, and humanity; she has been honored by the Prix Ars Electronica, Sigg Art Prize, Lumen Prize, Optimism AI Prize, and the Future.Art.Awards, and featured by Art Basel, MoMA, Artforum, Christie’s, NPR, Gucci, and Poets & Writers. Her acclaimed poetry collection Technelegy (2021), written with a personalized AI-powered language model trained on years of her own work, anticipated the rise of ChatGPT and agentic systems, and has been praised by such visionary thinkers as Ray Kurzweil and Hans Ulrich Obrist. A graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Stiles is co-founder of experimental literary gallery theVERSEverse and longtime poetry mentor to humanoid android BINA48, and lives and works near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.
A User’s Guide to Conversing with Kindred Technologies
The exhibition will be accompanied by a 200-page, full-color, hardcover book edited by Charlotte Kent (Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail, Professor of Visual Culture, and Google Machine and Artist Intelligence grantee), designed by Gwen Knutson, with full texts of Stiles’ collected poems, and essay contributions from both Kent and Stern alongside visionary thinkers including Claire Silver, Ivona Tau, Regina Harsanyi, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Ian Wiese. Launching Fall 2025, the pre-order link is coming soon!
IN THE LAB
Poking Fun by Jack Lehtinen
Graduate student Jack Lehtinen will be featured in the Krasl Art Center’s Lab. Lehtinen presents how our daily lives and engagement with the world are shifting in an era increasingly mediated by screens. He combines automatic drawing with computer generated images, AI with crayon and paint, focusing on the hand as “man-ual” but also something machine learning models struggle to present well. Lehtinen pokes fun at the distortions commonly found in AI images to produce artworks that are based on the body, yet not quite human.
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