Portraits with diskettes, the predecessors of the USB, by Nick Gentry

November 04, 2018 at 09:47 hrs.


Portraits with diskettes, the predecessors of the USB, by Nick Gentry


Do you still keep your Floppy?, those legendary rectangular objects that served to store information when the practices USBs were not even in thought yet. If so, you can donate them al artist Nick Gentry, who recycles obsolete technological materials to use them as canvases for his paintings.

In this dialogue between digital and analog processes It builds from compact discs, film negatives, X-rays, VHS cassettes and floppy disks. How these materials get them through donations is that his work is considered as a social art.