As part of Serpentine Arts Technologies’ collaboration with Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst that culminated in The Call, an exhibition at Serpentine North, open from 4 October 2024 to 6 February 2025, Future Art Ecosystems is leading on and hosting a data trust experiment. Partnering with the Centre for Data Futures, King’s College London, RadicalxChange, AWO and Keystone Law, Future Art Ecosystems is developing a legal and governance framework for the stewardship of a choral dataset, on which the AI models developed for The Call have been trained.
We hired Jennifer Ding as a Data Intermediary to help the choirs put into place governance practices for the use of the dataset in The Call, as well as for future uses of this new choral dataset in AI development and beyond. The experiment has led to valuable insights into the process of developing collective governance over training data given the challenges and constraints of participatory decision-making and the law. The insights can be broadly grouped under two rubrics:
We are currently working on a white paper that elaborates on these findings. We are also organising a programme of events, kicking off with an event, ‘Collective Intelligence, Collective Governance: How Art Productions Test New Ways of Collaboration with AI’, at King’s College on 24 October. Book your ticket.
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<aside> 💬 All media is now training data.
Herndon Dryhurst Studio
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<aside> 💬 Data coalitions can become places for learning new ways of participating.
Matt Prewitt, RadicalxChange
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<aside> 💬 Data as a resource defies all traditional legal and economic tools of analysis. We’ll need creative proposals for the new frameworks we create to govern it.
Sylvie Delacroix, Centre for Data Futures, King’s College London
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