![]() At that point, I only knew of two images that Warhol had made (on the Amiga). Wrbican noted, “Really, we didn’t have any clue what was on the disks. These disks contained many pieces, and while Museum archivist Matt Wrbican knew of their existence, no attempt had been made to read the disks or recover the images. ![]() Among the items were 41 floppy disks, Warhol used to store the works he created on the Amiga. “The (Warhol) museum has so much stuff, they’re still going through it.” Arcangel noted. A maximum, a hundred and twenty percent hoarder, so the amount of material that the Warhol Museum has is mind-boggling.” This led to much of the material being little examined not lost, but over-looked among hundreds and thousands of other items relating to Warhol’s life and art. Commenting on this massive amount of material, Arcangel told Themed for Your Pleasure podcast host Vanessa Applegate, “Warhol was a hoarder. Using the GraphiCraft painting system and other software, for example, Warhol created images that emulated techniques similar to his silkscreen creations of the 1960s, such as bright colors layered over black and white photos of celebrities and newspaper photos.Īfter his death, Warhol’s works, as well as a great deal of other material, eventually went to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. He created several works on the Amiga, often using familiar subjects such as Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup cans, but giving them a new sensibility harnessing the techniques that the Amiga provided. Warhol was given at least one full Amiga 1000 system with a drawing pad, camera, and various pieces of drawing software. He contacted the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh in a quest to find out more about the condition of Warhol’s Amiga works and equipment.Ĭommodore Amiga computer equipment used by Andy Warhol 1985-86 He became interested in Warhol’s work with the Amiga, in particular, whether any of Warhol’s floppy disks had survived. ![]() It was a video of the event uploaded to YouTube, along with the mention in the Warhol diaries, that caught the attention of arcangel, who has used obsolete technology in many of his works. “I’m going to do this ‘How to Paint’ thing that this computer company wants me to do,” Warhol noted in his diaries. ![]() He took part in a launch event at New York’s Lincoln Center, creating a piece of very Warholian art, using a scanned image of Debbie Harry of the New Wave act Blondie. Warhol’s interaction with the Amiga started with the introduction of the Amiga 1000 computer in 1985. ![]() Then I went to an opening.’ like a real kind of ‘this is what you do if you’re an artist. Not in the poetic sense, but in the day-to-day sense, like ‘I went to work today. Videos such as A couple of thousand short films about Glenn Gould and Sans Simon, as well as web-based works like Punk Rock 101, and even Nintendo cartridge hacks like Super Mario Clouds, make arcangel a multi-dimensional artist whose works can be seen as inhabiting areas that Warhol himself likely would have waded into had he not died in 1987.Īrcangel noted Warhol’s influence, “…when I first moved to New York and started becoming an artist, you know, I read his diaries, and for me, they were really helpful because they taught me, in a way, how to be an artist. Arcangel’s works span both physical and digital realms, as well as static and moving pieces, much like Warhol’s own works. One of the forty-one disks disks containing Andy Warhol’s Amiga filesĬory Arcangel describes himself as an ‘Acolyte of Andy Warhol.’ “Between DuChamp and Warhol, those are the two big influences for the kind of art I make,” says Arcangel. ![]()
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