Click on the images above, enlarge them, notice that these are painted on old floppy disks — remember those things? Before thumb drives? CDs? Zip disks? At least we’ve found a new use for them! UK painter Nick Gentry has taken to using the antiquated storage format, as well as others like VHS cassette, as canvas for his work. Check out his site to see more.
Here’s an excerpt from his artist bio:
“Since graduating from Central St Martins in 2006, the focus has been to explore how technological advancement is affecting society. Throughout history, information has always been recorded on physical objects. Important documents, favourite songs, videos and more were stored on mountains of tapes, polaroids, cassettes and disks. As media is rapidly absorbed into the World Wide Web the rich variety of formats of the past are becoming obsolete.”
{via ChangeTheThought}
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