{"id":3666,"date":"2014-04-24T12:59:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=3666"},"modified":"2014-04-24T14:09:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T18:09:13","slug":"bitcoin-for-your-warhol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/04\/bitcoin-for-your-warhol\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin for your Warhol!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Golan Levin&#8217;s &#8220;atypical, anti-disciplinary and inter-institutional&#8221; FRSCI lab, the CMU Computer Club, and ROM hacking bit-boy Cory Archangel, several instances of previously unknown visual artwork, done by Andy Warhol on the Amiga 1000 in 1985, <a href=\"http:\/\/studioforcreativeinquiry.org\/events\/warhol-discovery\">have been recovered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cashforyourwarhol.com\/signs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7093\/7226581954_c3f9723ff2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"CA$H for your WARHOL sign\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warhol&#8217;s use of this classic multimedia system is but one of the many surprising, rich aspects of Amiga history that are carefully detailed by Jimmy Maher in <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/future-was-here\"><i>The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga.<\/i><\/a> An early topic is the launch of the first Amiga computer at the Lincoln Center, with Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry in attendance and with Warhol producing a portrait of her on the machine during the festivities. Maher also writes about how Warhol&#8217;s attitude toward the computer was actually a bit retrograde in some ways: Rather than thinking of the screen as a first-class medium for visual art, he wanted better printers that could produce work in a more conventional medium. The discussion of Warhol&#8217;s involvement is but one chapter (actually, less than one chapter) in a book that covers the Amiga&#8217;s hardware development, technical advances, relationship to image editing and video processing work, and lively demos &#8212; from the early, famous &#8220;Boing Ball&#8221; demo to the productions of the demoscene. <i>The Future Was Here<\/i> is the latest book in the Platform Studies series, which I edit with Ian Bogost.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/future-was-here\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/covers\/9780262017206.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"475\" alt=\"The Future Was Here cover\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With these images surfacing now, after almost 30 years, the age-old question &#8220;soup or art?&#8221; is awakened in us once again. Do we need to print these out to enjoy them? To sell them for cash? Did Warhol invent what is now thought of as the <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/MSPaint\">&#8220;MS Paint&#8221; style,<\/a> back on the Amiga 1000 in 1985?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/studioforcreativeinquiry.org\/events\/warhol-discovery\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/studioforcreativeinquiry.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2_Andy_Warhol_Campbells_1985_AWF_475px.jpg\" alt=\"Amiga soup can\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note, finally, that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/studioforcreativeinquiry.org\/public\/warhol_amiga_report_v10.pdf\">detailed report on the recovery project<\/a> provided in PDF form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Golan Levin&#8217;s &#8220;atypical, anti-disciplinary and inter-institutional&#8221; FRSCI lab, the CMU Computer Club, and ROM hacking bit-boy Cory Archangel, several instances of previously unknown visual artwork, done by Andy Warhol on the Amiga 1000 in 1985, have been recovered. Warhol&#8217;s use of this classic multimedia system is but one of the many surprising, rich &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2014\/04\/bitcoin-for-your-warhol\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bitcoin for your Warhol!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,37,12,18,66,17,10],"class_list":["post-3666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amiga","tag-archiving","tag-art","tag-books","tag-demoscene","tag-digital","tag-platforms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3670,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3666\/revisions\/3670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}