"Trapped: Andy Warhol's Amiga Experiments"
A special screening from "The Invisible Photograph" documentary series produced by The Carnegie Museum of Art .
May 15, 2014, 6pm
West Gallery
Film Run-time 16 mins
A special screening from "The Invisible Photograph" documentary series produced by The Carnegie Museum of Art .
May 15, 2014, 6pm
West Gallery
Film Run-time 16 mins
Screen shot from the Amiga 1000
From as far back as the drawings made on the inside of caves, visual images have, from time to time, become “invisible.” Consider the case of 23 images made by Andy Warhol on a Commodore Amiga computer drawing program in 1985. It wasn't long before the images were trapped, held captive on obsolete disks.
For more than 25 years, they remained in The Andy Warhol Museum archive, until 2013, when an intrepid team including artist Cory Arcangel and members of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Club set out to retrieve them.
Trapped: Andy Warhol’s Amiga Experiments tells this story, raising questions about the lifecycle of images in a world of rapidly changing technology and is part of The Invisible Photograph, a five-part documentary series investigating the expansive realm of photographic production, distribution, and consumption by way of the hidden side of photography, whether guarded, stashed away, barely recognizable, or simply forgotten.
Part 1 - "Underground" will also be screened
(Film run-time 16 mins)
A safe haven for images happens to be hundreds of feet underground in a repurposed limestone mine, learn about the millions of photographs stored underground at the Corbis Image Archive at Iron Mountain in Butler, PA.
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For more than 25 years, they remained in The Andy Warhol Museum archive, until 2013, when an intrepid team including artist Cory Arcangel and members of Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Club set out to retrieve them.
Trapped: Andy Warhol’s Amiga Experiments tells this story, raising questions about the lifecycle of images in a world of rapidly changing technology and is part of The Invisible Photograph, a five-part documentary series investigating the expansive realm of photographic production, distribution, and consumption by way of the hidden side of photography, whether guarded, stashed away, barely recognizable, or simply forgotten.
Part 1 - "Underground" will also be screened
(Film run-time 16 mins)
A safe haven for images happens to be hundreds of feet underground in a repurposed limestone mine, learn about the millions of photographs stored underground at the Corbis Image Archive at Iron Mountain in Butler, PA.
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Additional Research Information
on Warhol & Amiga 1st issue of "Amiga World" magazine (pdf) 5 page article about Andy and his experience with the Amiga, January 1986. Amiga Computer Launch - 1985 This video features Andy Warhol painting Deborah Harry with an Amiga 1000 computer, (12:00 mark). |
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