Museum of Art + Light Acquires Sasha Stiles’s THE WIND ON MY LIPS AND IN MY HAIR
THE WIND ON MY LIPS AND IN MY HAIR, 2024 by Sasha Stiles
28.10.2025.
The Museum of Art + Light (MoA+L) announces the acquisition of THE WIND ON MY LIPS AND IN MY HAIR (2024), an LED neon poem sculpture by poet–artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles, for the museum’s permanent collection. The work has been generously donated by Kate Vass and the artist.
THE WIND ON MY LIPS AND IN MY HAIR extends Stiles’s acclaimed AI-crafted poetics into neon sculptural form. Building on the lineage of text-based light works and acknowledging neon’s nostalgic heritage, the sculpture brings Stiles’s AI poetry out from behind the screen and into physical space. Rendered in the artist’s signature fluid cursive font, the work evokes both the cybernetic and the organic. The illuminated verse fuses message and material in an immersive interplay of light, code, and meaning.
The work builds on Sasha Stiles’s transmedia practice, which reframes poetry as both art and technology through long-standing exploration of human–machine collaboration. Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist, and AI researcher, who, since 2018, has pioneered human–machine collaboration—most notably with Technelegy (2021), co-authored with a personalized AI model. Her award-winning projects such as Cursive Binary and Repetae explore authorship, memory, and the future of creative intelligence. Recognized by institutions and prizes including Prix Ars Electronica, the Sigg Art Prize, and the Lumen Prize, Stiles has exhibited and performed internationally from Lincoln Center, MoMA, and the V&A to Kunsthalle Zürich, Outernet London, and Shibuya Crossing.
The donation is made possible through a partnership with Kate Vass (Zürich), an independent art initiative whose program spans established, mid-career, and emerging artists deeply engaged with new technologies. With a sustained commitment to media art and its cutting-edge developments, Kate Vass offers a discerning perspective on digital, generative, AI, and new media practices. She represents Sasha Stiles and has presented her work at leading international platforms, including Untitled Art Fair in Miami (2024), where the donated sculpture was first featured in the program.
MoA+L was founded in 2021 to bring 21st-century technology into dialogue with the visual and performing arts. Adding Stiles’s neon poem continues the museum’s support for artists working with new tools and formats, and builds on its commitment to thoughtful presentation and conservation of technology-based art for broad publics. MoA+L has been long purpose-built to unite immersive, digital, and physical experiences under one roof, offering a natural context for Stiles’s work.
LOCATION:
The Museum of Art + Light
316 Pierre Street
Manhattan KS 66502
USA
The Museum of Art + Light, Manhattan KS, Source: artlightmuseum.org