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How Many Images Can You Save To a Floppy?
Written by Uber Geek    Tuesday, 02 February 2010 20:12    E-mail
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floppy_art1rIt's no sercrect that one of thre major things we do here at TheCoolestGeek.com is explore the marriage between art and technology. Well we hit the mother load with this finding. Cafted by Nick Gentry an artist from the UK; has truely done something simply remarkable. Full story and more pictures inside.


floppy_art4Since 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.

This represents a big shift away from physical, real world objects, driving towards a human existence that is ultimately governed by billions of intangible data files. This release of information from the physical form allows personal data and identities to now be revealed and infinitely shared online. At the same time many of us consider individuality and privacy to be more precious than ever.

Will humans be forever compatible with our own technology?floppy_art3
Each floppy disk used in the paintings has a history and story of its own. It represents the increasing pace of the modern life cycle, where objects are created, used and disposed of quicker than ever. To challenge this notion, as these personal artifacts of life are cast aside, the obsolete are now given new life and a renewed purpose by using them as a medium for art.floppy_art2






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