THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART TO PRESENT MAJOR NEW COMMISSION BY HOLLY HERNDON AND MAT DRYHURST NEW YORK, October 9, 2026 — @MuseumModernArt will present a newly commissioned audio, visual, and performance-based work by renowned artists and musicians @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst, a newly commissioned audio, visual, and performance-based work by renowned artists and musicians Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, marking the duo’s first solo presentation in New York. The commission will be staged jointly in the Museum’s Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio (March 27–June 13, 2027) and on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall (March 27–September 6, 2027), marking the first time MoMA has presented an exhibition across both spaces simultaneously. In the Kravis Studio, Herndon and Dryhurst will create an immersive audio environment for musician-led live choral performances, which will be open to audience participation. The artists will use the collective sound from these events to train AI models and, in turn, generate a new audiovisual work-in-process that will be displayed concurrently on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall. Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst is organized by Michelle Kuo, Chief Curator at Large and Publisher, with Helena Klevorn, Curatorial Assistant, Department of the Chief Curator at Large, and Ho Won Kim, Hyundai Card Exchange Visitor. Together, the two installations will turn the Museum into a laboratory for exploring the future of performance, technology, and human experience and the ways music, art, and machines can inspire collective emotion. Presenting new models for machine learning and human feeling, the exhibition will suggest how we might find ways to live with AI. Herndon and Dryhurst train their AI models in public: Their spaces record the people who perform inside them and hold a memory of everything that happens there. New to this work is a focus on open-endedness, a branch of AI research built on the idea that the most important discoveries cannot be planned in advance and that rewards exploration over fixed goals. Through participatory singing, the artists draw parallels between older musical forms and the call-and-response training of AI models and AI agents. They have also incorporated their own subjective associations, the sounds, images, and feelings to which they are drawn, to better understand their own minds and network them with others. In open-ended experiments with AI models, they investigate how human knowledge and AI might grow together, each pushing the other into new territory. The artists ask: Do machines not only learn, but feel? How has AI begun to shape not just our thoughts, but our deepest and most personal emotions and memories? How might humans shape this new world, in turn?

.@hollyherndon will speak at MIT on Sunday, October 25, at 3:30pm ET! Her talk, "AI as Musical Practice", looks at how she uses machine learning as a medium for making music. It’s followed by a Q&A with Manaswi Mishra, a PhD student in the Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. The talk is part of a series of events for the MIT Media Lab’s 40th anniversary, organized with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It takes place at the Thomas Tull Concert Hall, in an afternoon program that opens at 2pm with 40 Years of Music at the MIT Media Lab. Before Boston, Holly gives a talk titled Protocol on Thursday, October 22, at 5:30pm ET at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, as part of the University of Michigan’s Penny Stamps Speaker Series. That one is free and open to the public.

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Infinite Images and the Latent Camera (2022) Text by Herndon-Dryhurst Studio "...Since Alexander Mordvintsev released the Deep Dream project in 2015, machine learning imagery is often associated with surrealism. It is no doubt surreal to find oneself co-creating art by probing a disembodied cognitive system trained on billions of data points, and the images produced can be confounding and psychedelic. However, these are characteristics often ascribed to new experience. New experiences are weird, until they are no longer..." matdryhurst.medium.com/infin… When @hollyherndon and @matdryhurst published Infinite Images and the Latent Camera in 2022, AI image-making was entering a remarkable moment of transformation. Four years later, these experiments raise questions that go beyond the technological possibilities that originally motivated them. Holy and Mat described AI as a latent camera, a tool capable of revealing images from a vast space of learned visual relationships. But if that space is constructed from images of the past, to what extent are we discovering new visual possibilities, and to what extent are we reorganizing what already exists? Photography introduced a new relationship between images and the physical world; AI introduces a relationship between images and the accumulated history of images themselves. What happens to visual culture when images no longer need to originate from an encounter with reality, but can instead emerge from other images? And as these systems become increasingly capable of producing coherent, convincing, and aesthetically sophisticated results, what remains of the distinction between technical achievement and artistic intention? The questions of authorship, originality, collective cultural memory, representation, and the role of the artist become more complicated. For art, we think this is a good place to be. 🖼️ Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst Infinite Images ∞ 628, (2021-2022) Dye-Sublimation Print on Aluminium 22.86 x 22.86 cm (9 x 9 in) Print Edition: 5 + 1AP NFT: 1/1

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