Andy Warhol’s lost digital art recovered from floppy disks nearly 30 years later

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.