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Saturday Talks: Eva Jaeger on The Call plus Live Choral Performances

18 Jan 2025 12-2pm

Serpentine
London W2 3XA (Serpentine South), W2 2AR (Serpentine North)

Overview

Join for a curator tour of The Call and live choral singing.

Choir director Jeffry Borradaile leads members of Blackburn People’s Choir, South Lakes Acappella and Ordsall Acappella in performing songs from Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s AI Training Songbook. The event includes a guided tour of Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call led by Eva Jäger, Arts Technologies Curator, and concludes with a final performance.

12:00pm – First performance

12:30pm – Tour

1:00pm- Second performance

More about the exhibition:
A collaboration between artists Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and Serpentine Arts Technologies, The Call proposes new cultural, legal, and technical rituals for art in the age of AI.

Centring on developing new protocols and materials for the creation of choral AI models, The Call is a spatial audio installation produced with choral AI models and field recordings trained from a newly created choral dataset. This immersive experience allows visitors to sing through the choral AI models. 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.

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