Gallery: An Amazing Discovery: Andy Warhol's Groundbreaking Computer Art

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    Image: Andy Warhol Museum
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    Andy Warhol created a series of digital paintings using an Amiga computer and the GraphiCraft program. They were recently discovered on floppy disks.
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    Image: Andy Warhol Museum
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    Warhol's *Venus* as drawn on the Amiga. Notice the copy-pasted third eye.
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    A self-portrait made will flood fills. Warhol was among the first people to experiment with how these tools and software could be used to create art. *Image: Andy Warhol Museum*
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    Photos by Andy Warhol Museum
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    Warhol's hardware haul, which includes a drawing tablet and an Amiga 1000.
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    Photos by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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    One of more than 40 disks found in the Warhol collection. The Carnegie Mellon Computer Club was able to extract 28 works of art from these disks.
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    Photos by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
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    The Computer Club used a KyroFlux to help archive the disk's software. The students spent months reverse-engineering this software to be able to open up the obsolete file formats Warhol's images were saved as.
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