Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst transform K21 in Düsseldorf into a living training ground for an AI choir inviting visitors to lend their voices to a collective dataset inspired by a 12th-century morality play.
Throughout the run, visitors are invited to participate in public vocal recording sessions alongside local community choirs and a vocal ensemble. Their contributions form a dataset used to train an AI choir. The accompanying songbook draws on Ordo Virtutum, a 12th-century medieval morality play by Hildegard von Bingen, in which a soul must choose between the forces of good and evil. Through this framework, the work presents AI as a tangible, collective process and sheds light on the invisible hierarchies of technical protocols that shape our world.
“We’re looking not only to present a new kind of exhibitionbut also provide infrastructure – an open protocol – for others to use going forward.”– Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst
Starmirror was first presented at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (October 2025 – January 2026) before travelling to Düsseldorf.
