What if AI isn't floating in the cloud, but rooted in the materials beneath our feet and the language we've inherited across generations?

In this episode of Research Matters, we explore Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies, a collaborative exhibition by artist, researcher, and educator Nathaniel Stern and poet, artist, and AI researcher Sasha Stiles.

Through sculpture, generative poetry, artificial intelligence, and immersive installations, Stern and Stiles examine the evolving relationship between humans and technology, inviting us to consider the environmental, cultural, and creative systems that make digital life possible.

Together, their work explores questions of language, memory, ecology, machine creativity, and technological inheritance, challenging us to think critically about what future genera ...