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Mat Dryhurst

Mat Dryhurst is an artist whose collaborations with Holly Herndon examine AI, cultural ownership and collective creation.

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In the conversation

Making the training data can itself be art

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.

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From the terminal

A choir treats training data as a collective artwork

For The Call, and Mat Dryhurst work with fifteen UK community choirs to create choral AI models. presents the recording protocols and a data-trust experiment as part of the artwork's inquiry into shared authorship.

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Serpentine Arts Technologies

Treat artistic practice as a way of investigating collective authorship, identity and ownership.

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An exhibition demonstrates a practice and proposition, not population-level adoption; artwork rights are separate.

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