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ETA: I think it's awesome they found and recovered this data. As I recall, Warhol's Amiga usage was actually very limited. He used it for the Carnegie Hall A10
by filmgirlcw 13y ago
ETA: I think it's awesome they found and recovered this data.
As I recall, Warhol's Amiga usage was actually very limited. He used it for the Carnegie Hall A1000 demo (that was on software and hardware that was still prototype and the Amiga people were praying would work - it did), b/c Commodore paid him, but he didn't actually use the Amiga beyond that.
Looking at what they recovered, it makes sense that he would have tried to make a few pieces of his recognizable style, done the Deluxe Paint tut, etc. IIRC, the final demo was mostly just paint fills on a Debra Harry image imported into the Amiga.
There is also that anecdote about Warhol being mesmerized by the Macintosh at Sean Lennon's birthday (where Steve Jobs was setting it up), but as far as I know, be never used one.
For all of his tech saviness, Warhold didn't seem to be enamored with digital art, at least as it existed by the time he passed away.
I'll let other Warhol nerds correct me where I'm wrong, I'm typing this purely on memory of Warhol, Commodore and Apple history books I've read over the years (and a Warhol class I took in college, though that was more focused on his films).