Miriam Khenissi

Holly Herndon is an artist renowned for her pioneering work in machine learning, software and music. She develops her 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.

She co-runs an art studio in Berlin with her partner Mathew Dryhurst and co-founded Spawning, an organization building AI tools for artists. They were awarded the 2022 Ars Electronica STARTS prize for digital art for the Holly+ project. She has been on Art Review’s Power 100 list since 2021 and holds a Ph.D in Computer Music from Stanford. They publish their studio research openly through the Interdependence podcast, and their critically acclaimed musical works are released through 4AD and RVNG Intl.