Cory Arcangel
/roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
"/roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ (pronounced like "Rodeo" in "Rodeo Drive") is a one of a kind Deep-Q machine learning super computing system which can play, and learn as it is plays, open ended RPG games. For the debut deployment — /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ Let's Play: HOLLYWOOD — it will be playing Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, a casual free-to-play role-playing Android game where players aim to increase their reputation by gaining fans in order to become A-List celebrities. [...]
/roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ has been in development since 2017 by the R & D division of the Cory Arcangel fine arts studio in Brooklyn, New York, and Stavanger, Norway, and delivers significant computational performance with its AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-core 32-Thread processor & (x2) EVGA 24G-P5-3975-KR GeForce RTX 3090 XC3 Ultra GPU's connected together by a Rog Crosshair Viii Dark Hero motherboard. Running NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture accelerated YOLO real-time object detection on a Darknet neural network framework with Dark Flow tensorflow interfacing with custom Deep-Q learning software, /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ can "see" games, make choices, and evaluate those choices.
LINK: Cory Arcangel's roʊˈdeɪoʊ (all images courtesy of the Artist)
