Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Andy Warhol, Digital Art Pioneer?
It all started with a video on YouTube. Sometime in 2011, artist Cory Arcangel watched a
video of Andy Warhol painting a digital portrait of singer Debbie Harry in 1985 on a Commodore Amiga 1000 as part of a promotional event for the computer ’s
release. What happened to that image and the others Warhol made on that
computer nearly 30 years ago?, Arcangel wondered. When Arcangel
traveled to Pittsburgh later that year for his upcoming exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, he stopped off at the nearby Andy Warhol Museum
and asked that very question of the curators. That YouTube video and
Arcangel’s curiosity set off a chain of events that led to the recovery
of those long-forgotten images from the depths of the digital archives
and the tomb of obsolete technology. Compared to what artists such as
Arcangel and others can do with modern computer technology today,
Warhol’s images (such as his self-portrait, shown above) seem like
quaint cave drawings. But there’s still something to be learned from
looking at the first foray into a new medium for an already established
artist such as Andy Warhol, who may now be seen perhaps as a digital art
pioneer. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Andy Warhol, Digital Art Pioneer?"
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