# Holly Herndon

Holly Herndon is an artist and musician whose work explores voice, AI and collective creation.

Type: person. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/holly-herndon)
[Original website](https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/)

## Sources

- [Serpentine Arts Technologies](https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/): Treat artistic practice as a way of investigating collective authorship, identity and ownership.

## Perspectives

- [Making the training data can itself be art](/perspectives?position=herndon-dryhurst-collective-creation) (Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst): Herndon and Dryhurst propose treating AI training as a collective creative act. In The Call, the gathering of voices, recording rules and shared governance become part of the artwork, alongside the sounds a model produces.

## Terminal notes

- [A choir treats training data as a collective artwork](/notes/the-call-collective-voice.md): For The Call, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst work with fifteen UK community choirs to create choral AI models. Serpentine presents the recording protocols and a data-trust experiment as part of the artwork's inquiry into shared authorship.

## Parallels

- [Whose voice, whose say?](/parallels?parallel=shared-creation): When your work helps train a model, what would make you a collaborator?

## Context references

- [https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/](https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/holly-herndon-mat-dryhurst-the-call/)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=holly-herndon)