Artist and musician Holly Herndon and artist and technologist Mat Dryhurst, alongside their own music, software, and digital experiments, are some of the first to explore visual projects, often released as NFTs, with next-gen text-to-image generators like Dall-e and Stable Diffusion. As a rare bridge between often siloed cultural sectors, including experimental music, advanced technology, and generative visual art, Herndon and Dryhurst have been nurturing and narrating the growing web3 community connected to blockchains and NFTs. They recently released a folksy cover of Dolly Parton’s Jolene made (not by them) using their tool Holly+, the vocal deepfake platform they offered up to the public, and for use by other musicians, last year. These tools raise urgent questions about authenticity and authorship, which the pair productively blur. They have also been vocal narrators of the ethics of web3, issues of consent in the age of AI, and questions of what data is being used to train these emerging intelligences. In September 2023 they announced their new venture Spawning, through which creators can opt out of the datasets that shape AI. The pair also produced a podcast called Interdependence, where artists, curators, and digital pioneers discuss the future of digital art and culture.