The group from the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club freed the works from floppy discs that have been held in The Andy Warhol Museum's archives since 1994, but that had been inaccessible due to their obsolete format.
The project came about after artist Cory Arcangel spotted a YouTube video of Warhol painting Blondie singer Debbie Harry at an Amiga launch in 1985. The video inspired him to approach the museum about the fate of the rest of Warhol's digital experiments. Enter the computer club, which is well known for its collection of obsolete hardware and retro software design skills.
Warhol's original work was commissioned by Commodore, the maker of the much-loved Amiga...
Nothing much of interest today, so I'll leave you for now with this.
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The discovery and recovery project has been filmed for a documentary that will be put online at nowseethis.org in mid-May
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