Apr 28, 2014 1:30 PM

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

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.
Image: Andy Warhol Museum
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Warhol's *Venus* as drawn on the Amiga. Notice the copy-pasted third eye.

Image: Andy Warhol Museum
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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*
Photos by Andy Warhol Museum
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Warhol's hardware haul, which includes a drawing tablet and an Amiga 1000.

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.
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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