Holly Herndon

Multidisciplinary artist

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Why you should listen

Holly Herndon fuses machine learning and electronic music into virtual tools that explore the concepts of ownership and identity. Her AI project Holly+, developed with her partner Mathew Dryhurst, allows other creators to use her digital avatar to craft their own multimedia works. It won the 2022 Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize for digital art. Herndon is the cofounder of Spawning, an organization building AI tools for artists, while the pair release their music through the label 4AD. They will deliver a talk together at TED2024.

Holly Herndon’s TED talk

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Holly Herndon

What if you could sing in your favorite musician's voice?

Posted Sep 2022

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Intelligence: Notes from Session 3 of TED2022

April 11, 2022

The quest to better understand human intelligence — and to build more advanced artificial intelligence — is complex, knotty and exhilarating. In a wonderfully eclectic session, seven speakers explored the concept of intelligence as it applies to everything from a brain-computer interface to dragonflies, AI-powered art and meditation. The event: Talks from TED2022, Session 3: […]