The duo is known for their contributions to music and art, in which they explore the creative potential and ethics of creating content using technologies, such as AI, Web 3.0, and blockchain.
[5] As an early adopter and practitioner of emerging blockchain technology including NFTs and social tokens,[6] Dryhurst's work envisions cultural production within a decentralized internet.
[8][9] In 2015, Dryhurst launched Saga, which is an embeddable self-hosting and publishing framework that lets content creators claim ownership in every space where their work is embedded online.
That doesn’t mean SoundCloud with a different name and font, but an entirely different logic that is as nuanced and distinguished as the independent communities that use it.”[12] Dryhurst has collaborated on music, visual art, and tech-based projects with Holly Herndon since 2013.
[13] In 2015, Dryhurst and Herndon released an eleven minute long track called Recruit, which they made for British menswear line Cottweiler.
[35] Podcast guests have included artists James Bridle, Simon Denny, Harm van den Dorpel, and Emad Mostaque who is the founder of AI deep learning platform Stable Diffusion.
[4] In September 2022, Dryhurst and Herndon began collaborating with Jordan Meyer and Patrick Hoepner to develop an organization called Spawning.
[37] They set up a website called haveibeentrained.com, where artists can search the approximately 5.8 billion images in the Laion-5b dataset used to train popular AI art models Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.
[32] If an artist finds out that their work is being hosted within a dataset, Spawning can help them declare whether they want to continue or terminate the use of their imagery for AI training.
[32] In March 2023, Spawning, partnering with stock footage company Shutterstock and portfolio platform Artstation, announced that 80 million artworks have been opted out of Stable Diffusion version 3.0 to honor artists’ claims.
[41] The exhibition, titled Everywhere and Nowhere, featured a combination of a 23.2-channel sound installation and related video works, as well as live performances by dancer and choreographer Jone San Martin, Jiu Jitsu fighter Sam Forsythe, and artist Brian Rogers.