AI writes its own version of id Software’s Doom, a thought to have been lost digital artwork reemerges in Delaware, and SuperRare holds their Tales of Seasons exhibition in New York. Read more in Post Rendered’s news roundup for August 2024.
Lost digital portrait of Debbie Harry found in Delaware
ArtNews reported at the end of July that a thought to have been lost portrait of singer Debbie Harry created by Andy Warhol had reemerged in Delaware.
The portrait was done as part of a promotional event for Amiga Computers at the Lincoln Center in 1985. Harry had one copy of the portrait on disk, and believed there to be only one other copy in existence, which has now been found.
The digital portraits on the disk are said to be going up for auction, though when and where is still unknown. ArtNews highlights that a series of five NFTs made from restored Amiga images by Warhol sold for nearly 3.4 million dollars at a Christie’s auction in 2014.
SuperRare’s Tales of Seasons Exhibition takes place in New York
SuperRare Director of Curation An (@anloremi) curated the Web3 art site’s Tales of Seasons show this past Friday at the Westfield World Trade Center in New York. The show was described as celebrating the “interplay of light, color, and sentiment that defines the end of summer and the beginning of fall” through “paintings, photography, illustrations, collage, AI, and glitch art.” The seventeen featured artists and their selected works can be previewed here.
Doom video game recreated by A.I.
EuroGamer reported that GameNGen (pronounced Game Engine) has been utilized by researchers at Google Research and Google Deepmind to recreate id Software’s 1993 game Doom.
By feeding GameNGen video clips of the game, the neural network model AI has recreated Doom with significant accuracy. The researchers do note the limitations and anomalies found in GameNGen’s version of Doom, though the end result (even if only running at 20fps) is incredibly authentic. You can read researchers Dani Valevski, Yaniv Leviathan, Moab Arar, and Shlomi Fruchter’s paper regarding the expirament here.
Post Rendered Recommends: Samara & The Rangers (preview)
Illustrator Dell Barras and writer Drew D. Lenhart released a preview issue of their upcoming series Samara & the Rangers. The book tells the story of mankind rebuilding civilization after a near-apocalyptic event involving aggressive sentient robots in the year 2558 AD. This black and white preview issue sets up the grander story, while also ending with a cliffhanger of the conflict to come. The full book is due out in 2025 from publisher Snowy Works. You download the preview issue for free from Drive-Thru Comics.