Belvedere Road, South Bank, London
Fri 11 Sept · 20:00 · £24
Rewrite the rules of art-making as the artist and composer presents full works from over a decade innovating at the frontier of music and AI. Hear works from Proto – Holly Herndon’s 2019 album on label 4AD with her human-AI ensemble – The Call, created through collaborative training by choirs across the UK, Starmirror, built on participatory training sessions with live audiences, and her latest material. At the core of Herndon’s practice is a conviction that model-making is itself art-making. She and collaborator Mat Dryhurst compose and record their own training material, shape their own datasets and treat every stage of the process as a site of authorship. Their work is not just concerned with the outputs a model produces, but with the decisions regarding input – what exactly these AI models are learning from, and how. Listen to complete pieces alongside the source material used to train the models and make the work. It’s a unique chance to hear how aesthetic choices shape technical outcomes, and how the question of what you feed a model is as much an artistic decision as what you do with what comes out. Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.