POEM = CODE, a discussion with Eva Jäger, Dyl Blaquiere, Jen Roebuck, and Mark Webster, moderated by Sasha Stiles
held at re:VERSE, the poetry symposium in London on April 23, 2025 at Ladbroke Hall. the evening was co-presented by theVERSEverse and The Tezos Foundation in partnership with The Collectors Club, Muse Frame, Digital Art Week, and The Disruptive Gallery.
about the panelists
poem = code
Dyl Blaquiere is the CEO of Muse Frame and Sedition, leading advancements in digital art experiences. With master’s degrees in Economics and International Business, he combines strategic insight with creative vision to expand access to digital art. Under his leadership, Muse Frame offers elegant solutions for displaying digital art, while Sedition provides a platform for limited digital editions by leading artists. Originally from Australia, Dyl has lived throughout Europe and the US and is currently based in Germany. He also serves on the International Selectors Committee for the Lumen Prize, reflecting his commitment to the digital art community.
Eva Jäger is Arts Technologies Curator and Creative AI Lead at Serpentine. She commissions artists working with advanced technologies, and is a collaborator in conceptualising novel approaches, workflows, and philosophies of emerging tech. At Serpentine she has worked with artists such as Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Hito Steyerl, Suzanne Treister, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, amongst others. Eva is researcher and writer for the annual Future Art Ecosystems briefing, and Co-Investigator of the Creative AI Lab (Serpentine and King’s College London). Eva also has an independent design practice that investigates applications of emerging computation, information, analysis, and predictive technologies, in order to better understand how they form our belief systems. This work manifests as tech-integrated performances, object design, installations, and film.
Jen Roebuck is the London based CMO and entrepreneur focused on disruptive strategy, innovation, and creative leadership. Chair of Lumen Prize and CMO at Houdini Swap.
MARK WEBSTER. Born in Canada, raised in the United Kingdom and currently living in France, Mark Webster is a prominent figure in the field of visual and sonic arts using code to create evocative works of art. Upon graduating with a modern languages degree in 1998, he moved to France where he worked in a variety of fields within the visual and sonic arts, only to find code as a creative medium in 2005 with John Maeda. Recognising the potential in an emerging field for artists and designers, it was precisely then that he began organising events to promote awareness and encourage the creative coding community. Since 2010, he has devoted a good part of his time to teaching code in art schools and particularly to graphic design undergraduates. With custom-made software and computational and generative strategies as his main approach, he has been developing a highly personal body of work since 2020.
Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher whose work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics, generative imagination, and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — a means of encoding human experience across space and time — and blends language, image, and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age. Stiles is a frequent speaker at international events in culture and innovation, and regularly publishes and exhibits around the globe, on and off the blockchain. Her work has been honored by the Sigg Art Prize, Lumen Prize, Prix Ars Electronica and Monument Lab, and featured by Art Basel, MoMA, Christie’s, Gucci, Art Forum and Poets & Writers. A co-founder of theVERSEverse and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford, she has served as Poetry Mentor to the AI humanoid BINA48 since 2018, and lives near New York City with her husband and studio partner, Kris Bones.
