Lost Collection of Andy Warhol Art Recovered From Floppy Disks

Art historians have recovered a collection of lost Andy Warhol paintings, which were never turned into physical prints, from 30-year-old Amiga floppy disks.

In 1985, computer and electronics manufacturer Commodore International commissioned Andy Warhol to create art using the company’s Amiga 1000 computer. Warhol saved many of his experimental images to Amiga floppy disks.

The Andy Warhol Museum added those disks to its collection in 1994, but it wasn’t until last year that historians realized the disks held undiscovered works of art. But by that time, the file formats of the saved images had become obsolete. A team of archivists and computer researchers used custom software to recover the images. Read more...