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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Lost Warhol originals extracted from decaying Amiga floppies

Golan Levin writes, "My lab (in collaboration with many others) has announced a major dead-media discovery. We have recovered previously unknown, pure-digital artworks by Andy Warhol -- extracted from decaying Amiga floppy disks from 1985." Warhol created the works with Graphicraft, and the disks needed a lot of love and coaxing to get the files off them (to my mind, the story of the technical heroics is a lot more interesting than the pictures, but I'm not much of a Warhol fan).














An interesting read via Boing Boing


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