28 unseen Andy Warhol digital artworks from 1985 recovered from old Amiga floppy disks

Warhol used the Amiga to explore how his familiar artistic style could work in a new digital medium. In 1985, Andy Warhol experimented with digital art on an Amiga computer as part of a commission from Commodore International. Nearly 30 years later, researchers recovered 28 previously unseen digital images created by the artist from floppy disks stored in the archives of The Andy Warhol Museum.The images had remained inaccessible because the files were saved in an obsolete format, according to The Andy Warhol Museum. Members of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computer Club worked with museum staff, artists and researchers to recover the data from the ageing floppy disks.Warhol, who earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1949, used the Amiga to explore how his familiar artistic style could work in a new digital medium. The recovered works include experiments with Campbell’s soup cans, Botticelli’s Venus, Marilyn Monroe, a banana and portraits.The recovery project began after artist Cory Arcangel, who described himself as a "Warhol fanatic and lifelong computer nerd", learnt about Warhol’s Amiga experiments through a 1985 Commodore infomercial...