{"id":6799,"date":"2010-01-28T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/floppy-disk-paintings-redefine-renaissance-art-art\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:00:00","slug":"floppy-disk-paintings-redefine-renaissance-art-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/floppy-disk-paintings-redefine-renaissance-art-art.php","title":{"rendered":"Floppy Disk Paintings Redefine Renaissance Art [Art]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>British artist Nick Gentry<\/a>'s paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They're still storage media, just in a much more literal sense.<\/p>

At some point recently, you've probably uncovered an old box of videos, cassettes, and floppies in the basement and thought to yourself, \"what am I supposed to do<\/i> with these?\" It turns out you just weren't thinking hard enough.<\/p>

Painting on canvases comprised of 3.5\" floppy disks and VHS tapes, Nick Gentry puts these bygone forms of storage to use in his art.<\/p>

To see more of his incredible work, check out the artist's website<\/a>. [Nick Gentry<\/a>]<\/p>

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