This new exhibition will run at the Serpentine North from the 4th October until the 2nd February 2025.
As part of the Serpentine’s Year of AI, Berlin-based artists and technologists Holly Herndon (USA – named by TIME magazine among the 100 most influential people in AI) and Mat Dryhurst (UK) head to the UK for the first time for their first UK exhibition.
The aim of the exhibition is to address current societal concerns with artificial intelligence, and platform musical ensembles from across the UK in a participatory experience for the public.
Centring on the collective creation of new vocal datasets, governance frameworks and polyphonic AI models, The Call positions the process of data collection and AI model-training as artmaking.
Specifically for this exhibition, newly commissioned AI models were trained in collaboration with fifteen choirs up and down the UK using a songbook of hymns and singing exercises specially composed by Herndon and Dryhurst. The ensembles were then captured by a multi-channel recording protocol as part of a choral dataset tour in Spring 2024.
The Call will both show how AI can enhance the power and artistry of the voice, and envisage new cultural, legal, and technical methods necessary to build AI systems collaboratively and ethically. Throughout, visitors will be able hear the new soundwork composed and interact with the training models.
To find out more visit: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/