I have been enjoying this artists work for a few years now.

https://www.facebook.com/nickgentryart

Amiga disks and art!
Simply stunning.

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@ddni

Am now, good stuff.

Rude!

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i have a friend in the same gallery working with audio tapes in similar manner. only he doesnt paint. only, lets say, its a little bit more conceptional. painting upon some scrap material isnt exactly new in art..

@wawa

breaking world records isn't exactly new in sports either, where is the rule that all new artists must create a new and unique medium?

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@olegil

I purposefully ignore wawa's posts. It seems to limit his input to just the one baiting post.

Edit - maybe when it comes to art, wawa's posts should not be ignored (see below).

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@olegil

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breaking world records isn't exactly new in sports either, where is the rule that all new artists must create a new and unique medium?

right, there should be no rules in art, through as in any other region of human activity you can observe some (empirically). one of them says, every artist should be attempting at doing something unique. the artist in question here is trying to achieve it to intentionally painting on floppy disks and the like, but beyond that even his painting style looks rather conservative, and fairly (but its just me (im not your regular artist in this respect) i cant discover much message behind those pretty faces he paints. to me it looks more a hipster trick without much actual content.

of course, coming from berlin scene since nineties, i may have seen just enough of painting on scrap..
btw, here some a little older and more prominent examples of such approach:

robert rauschenberg (combine paintings)
https://www.google.de/search?q=robert+rauschenberg&hl=de&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=eDhMUbvPH4KStQap74HwBQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=1075

jasper johns (similar as rauschenberg an artist between pop art and the american abstract expressionism, note the flag, according to joseph kosuth painting that ended painting, because it exposes no illusional space anymore, only the surface)
https://www.google.de/search?q=jasper+johns&hl=de&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=FT5MUavqC4faswbggoCoDQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=1075

julian schnabel (note the fabric and plate paintings, a bit kitchy and pretender but i like him, did some not that bad films as well):
https://www.google.de/search?q=julian+schnabel&aq=f&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=mDlMUeKfBYnqswbSooDYCg&biw=1600&bih=1075&sei=njlMUZmHFc7AswaPooG4Cg

tim rollins & k.o.s. (popular in the nineties social project of an artist painting with kids from bronx on book pages, kafkas america and the like)
https://www.google.de/search?q=tim+rollins&hl=de&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ij1MUZC-IsvxhQfU6YCgDQ&ved=0CDwQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=1038

what do you think of that? probably not much, because its not digital storage media, they are painting on, and therefore this doesnt cross your (computer related) attention field. however art shouldnt be just as simple taken.

hmm.. this friend of mine would probably do score better:
https://www.google.de/search?q=gregor+hildebrandt&hl=de&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=yztMUfeKF9DjtQappYHYCA&ved=0CDEQsAQ&biw=1600&bih=1075

said that, im not trying to impose my views on you, only - so to say - sharing a professional opinion, since youve crossed my field.
edit: typos

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@wawa

Wawa you have surprised me. That is a very informative and useful post. Thanks I enjoyed most of the links.

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@ddni

you welcome. its just a few things instantly coming to mind on this subject ;)

@ddni

I'd be a fan if he's using dead floppies. But if he's destroying perfectly good floppy disks...

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@Darth_X

destroying stuff in particular valuable stuff is a valid practice in art, because it provokes strong emotions. think of it like the who smashing a guitar on the stage or so. a contemporary example of well known and recognised chinese artist and activist (i dont particularly like him and what he does, but whatever):
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SVLPfLqWMyA/Tn_u4IQurbI/AAAAAAAAAV8/jBvHL8rX1a8/s1600/Dropping-a-Han-Dynasty-Urn-Ai-Weiwei.jpg

@Darth_X

Yep in one of his pictures, he painted over a full copy of Amiga Putty Squad.

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@wawa

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wawa wrote: @Darth_X destroying stuff in particular valuable stuff is a valid practice in art, because it provokes strong emotions. think of it like the who smashing a guitar on the stage or so. a contemporary example of well known and recognised chinese artist and activist (i dont particularly like him and what he does, but whatever): http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SVLPfLqWMyA/Tn_u4IQurbI/AAAAAAAAAV8/jBvHL8rX1a8/s1600/Dropping-a-Han-Dynasty-Urn-Ai-Weiwei.jpg

I guess an Amiga fan could drop an X1000 because "its not a real Amiga". Not me of course, I'm not that evil. We hope.

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@ddni
An example the pirate convert in artist, because much cover disk are pirate games?

@Templario

The captions stated the materials were donated, so in that respect the "pirates" were the original owners of the disks rather than the artist himself.

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@_Steve_

I doubt that would fly if he carved statues out of cannabis resin.

@Rob

Luckily, there's still a world of difference between those two

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This weeks pet peeve:
Using "voltage" instead of "potential", which leads to inventing new words like "amperage" instead of "current" (I, measured in A) or possible "charge" (amperehours, Ah or Coulomb, C). Sometimes I don't even know what people mean.

@Rob

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Rob wrote: I doubt that would fly if he carved statues out of cannabis resin.

No worries! As long as he did that carving in Colorado or Washington state.

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