Andy Warhol's Lost 1985 Digital Paintings
Chapter 1

The pioneers of pixels

Chapter 2

When the web became the canvas

Chapter 3

The multi-million dollar blockchain boom

Chapter 4

Screens taking over physical spaces

Ch 1 · The pioneers of pixels
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andy Artist Harold Cohen created a robotic painting system.

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Pocket Pixel Museum
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andy Curate your pixel art gallery to learn how digital screens conquered the art market.

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Vera Molnár's imaginary machine

andy After using her imaginary machine, Vera Molnár accessed a Paris mainframe in 1968, learning FORTRAN to run a plotter printer.

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Quiz

Which programming language did pioneer Vera Molnár learn in 1968 to create her early computer-generated plotter art?

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What was the name of the systematic, rule-based method Vera Molnár used to create art by hand before she got access to a real computer?

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Creativity does not wait for the perfect tool; it adapts whatever is at hand.

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Harold Cohen's robotic painter

andy The robotic painter evolved from drawing simple lines to mixing its own physical colors.

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What was the name of the pioneering autonomous art-making software launched by Harold Cohen in 1973?

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How did Harold Cohen's early computer program AARON physically draw its creations in the 1970s?

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Fun Fact

Warhol's floppy disks: Andy Warhol's 1985 digital paintings were lost on old floppy disks for nearly thirty years until a computer club recovered them in 2014.

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Quiz

Which software program did Andy Warhol use to paint his famous digital portrait of Debbie Harry?

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On which home computer did pop artist Andy Warhol create a live digital portrait of singer Debbie Harry in 1985?

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Glossary
pixel (noun)
A minute area of illumination on a display screen, one of many from which an image is composed. In 1953, Ben Laposky bypassed pixels entirely, using an analog oscilloscope to capture electronic wave patterns.

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Quiz

How did Herbert W. Franke capture the fleeting mathematical patterns generated on his laboratory screens in the 1950s?

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What electronic laboratory instrument did physicist Herbert W. Franke use to generate his 1956 'oscillograms' art?

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Gossip

Which early computer art tool would you try first?

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