“The stewardship of a choral dataset”

Monday 30th September, 2024 - Bruce Sterling

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Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call

Serpentine North, 4 October 2024 – 2 February 2025

Berlin-based artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst approach AI as a coordination and communication technology, much like singing has been for millennia. Historically, singing techniques like call and response have been rituals for communication, leading us to build spaces and structures for gathering, processing, transmitting information, and creating meaning in social and civic life. Like a choir, where many individual voices become a collective, the artists propose that AI can further augment the transformation from the individual to the collective.

The Call centres on developing new protocols and materials for the creation of choral AI models. To train these, a choral dataset was created. Herndon and Dryhurst composed a songbook of hymns, singing exercises and a recording protocol, and travelled with the Serpentine Arts Technologies team across the UK to record fifteen choirs. The choristers are now part of a data trust experiment that distributes power between those included in the dataset and those who use it.

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