ITP Alum Nathaniel Stern's "Generation to Generation" Opens in Milwaukee

Thursday, Feb 19, 2026

ITP Alum Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles present their large-scale, groundbreaking museum exhibition that illuminates the co-evolution of humans and technology, inviting us to reconsider our relationships with the tools we invent.  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a transformational force in human history, akin to the rise of language itself, the printing press, or our harnessing of electricity - unlocking new realms of imagination and awareness. Yet its discourse is fraught with fear, misunderstanding, and disconnection.

By blending Artificial Intelligence with more traditional artistic expression, Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies 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. 

Learn more and watch the documentary.

Nathaniel Stern is a Professor of Art, Engineering, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Language artist and AI researcher, Sasha Stiles, currently has a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art In NYC. On opening day, the artists will host a series of events with Associate Professor of Visual Culture, and Google Machine and Artist Intelligence grantee, Charlotte Kent.

The exhibition was accompanied by a 172-page, full-color, hardcover book edited by Dr. Charlotte Kent (Artforum and The Brooklyn Rail), 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, Tami Fauver, and Ian Wiese. Pre-orders from Vetro Press are live now!

In “‘AI Is Us’:
Artists Explore How The Technology We Make Also Makes Us,” Leslie Katz says that the "immersive new AI-infused exhibit... explores how humans and technology evolve side by side," showing how they "can never fully be separated." It's an insightful preview for Forbes magazine online, that also refers back to Nathaniel's older work and Sasha's AI poetics currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.