The Andy Warhol Museumhas recovereda series of nontextual matter created by the illustrious pop artist in the mid-1980s using a Commodore Amiga home data processor . fresh call up from old floppy disks , they ’re now useable for all to see .
In fact , the images have only number to light because new mass medium artist Cory Arcangel stumbled acrossa YouTube clipof Warhol using a Commodore Amiga way of life back in 1985 . The telecasting , taken from a launch effect for the electronic computer , express Warhol using the ironware to make digital art . Which got Arcangel remember : where , precisely , were Warhol ’s digital picture ?
Turns out — after a bunch of inquiry by Arcangel , curators from the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Warhol Museum ’s primary archivist — that hidden by in archives were a series of Amiga floppy disks with images on them . With the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club providing old - skool ironware to view the file , they were quickly excavate .
The effect is a series of doodles , photographs , and experiment , all distinctively Warhol : a three - eyed take on Botticelli ’s The parentage of Venus , a crude Campbell ’s soup can , and a very far-out ego portrayal . The image — and the mental process of retrieving them — are documented in a new exhibition called The Invisible Photograph serial at the Carnegie Museum of Art . [ The WarholviaVerge ]
image byThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts , Inc. , courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum .
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