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An infinite poem that recomposes every hour at MoMA
Sasha Stiles and sound artist Kris Bones built an endless poem for MoMA: a bespoke language model, Stiles’s poetry, museum text-art metadata, a custom Cursive Binary typeface, p5.js animation and generative sound recompose the text every hour.
By 
Sasha Stiles @sashastiles · Kris Bones
Stiles and curator Martha Joseph on language as technology
Exhibition page and online experience
What it does
See language-model work with a full visual and temporal system — not a scrolling text generator, but a slow public reading experience.
Who it helps
People interested in poetry, typography and generative systems at museum scale.
How it was made
- Models
- Bespoke language model · trained on Stiles’s poetry and MoMA text-art metadata — described
- Tools
- Cursive Binary typeface · Custom type systemp5.js and generative sound · Hourly recomposition of text, colour and sound
- A bespoke model draws on Stiles’s poetry and fragments of MoMA’s text-art collection to compose an endless poem.
- The work recomposes text, typography, colour, animation and sound every hour, with a custom Cursive Binary typeface and p5.js animation.
- Shown at MoMA from September 2025 to March 2026, with an online experience as the primary public link.
What the person did
Stiles wrote the poetry and directed the system; Bones designed the sound. The poem runs as an endless public reading rather than a generated dump.
What we know
Creator-reported: The MoMA exhibition page and the Lerandom conversation between Stiles and curator Martha Joseph; the corpus and model details are described, not published.
Access checked — 2026-09-29 · Opened the MoMA exhibition page, the artist site and the Lerandom conversation on 2026-09-29.
Can you use it?
MoMA controls image reproduction; the code, text, typeface and installation images carry their own rights. We link only and host no text or media. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a capture of the work.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-29. Updated 2026-09-29.