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More than a dozen digital works by artist Andy Warhol have been discovered on 1985’s Amiga floppy disks. Commodore International commissioned Warhol to produce digital art to demonstrate the graphic arts capabilities of the Amiga 1000 personal computer. The images he made included several subjects associated with Warhol, including self-portraiture, Campbell’s soup can and Botticelli’s Venus.

The digital images were discovered and recovered by staff and students who are members of Carnegie Mellon University’s computer club. A complex three-year project was required to recover the images which were saved in an obscure data format.

A short documentary about the team’s work in recovering the Warhol images will premiere at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall in Pittsburgh on May 10th and will be available online at NowSeeThis on May 12th.

 

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