Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst
Guests at Moviment
Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst are artists renowned for their pioneering work in machine learning, software and music.
Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst develop their own technology, and protocols for living with the technology of others, often with a focus on the ownership and augmentation of digital identity and voice. These technical systems not only facilitate expansive artworks across media, but are proposed as artworks unto themselves. They were awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica STARTS prize for digital art. They have sat on ArtReview’s Power 100 list since 2021.
Holly Herndon holds a Ph.D in Computer Music from Stanford CCRMA; Mathew Dryhurst is largely self taught. They have held faculty positions at NYU, the European Graduate School, Strelka Institute and the Antikythera Program at the Berggruen Institute. They publish their studio research openly through the Interdependence podcast, and recently co-founded Spawning, an organization building a consent layer for AI. Their critically acclaimed musical works are released through 4AD.
The Musée national d'art moderne–Centre Pompidou and KADIST are embarking on a three-year collaboration to explore the meeting points between artificial intelligence technologies and the field of artistic creation and production. More precisely, this project focuses on critical perspectives from artists in this moment of emergent technologies, accelerationist techno-positivism, and destabilized image regimes. These extractive softwares are poised to disrupt, launching debates about automation, problematics of cultural aggregation, issues of artistic consent, and the limits of copyright.
The collaboration, which brings together the Centre Pompidou and KADIST, has three components: a public discussion (2023), an exhibition (2024), and an intervention in the public space (2025).
Moviment inaugurates this project with a series of conferences, screenings and debates, presenting the current state of work and reflection.
Speakers and artists: Marcella Lista (Musée national d'art moderne–Centre Pompidou), Joseph del Pesco (KADIST), Michael Connor (Rhizome, NY), Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Nouf Aljowaysir, Carlos Amorales, Éric Baudelaire, Sofia Crespo, Holly Herndon & Mathew Dryhurst, Ho Rui An, Agnieszka Kurant, Juan Obando.
