What you are about to witness is the result of an effort of research and engineering that began in 1982 and which to date has consumed over 100 man-years of engineering talent - Robert Pariseau

In 1985, Commordore launched the Amiga. With a custom chipset and a display consisting of 4096 colours, the Amiga was a graphical powerhouse, being able to seamlessly product art and animations. The capabilities of the Amiga instantly made clear, with Andy Warhol hosting a live art show where he created a digial portrait of singer Debbie Harry.

Warhol would become an avid user of the Amiga throughout his life, famously saying in an interview with Amiga World magazine: The thing that I like most about doing this kind of art on the Amiga is that it looks like my work.

As you can likely tell, my experiments with Amiga inspired art have been heavily influenced by Warhol's style.

all for the love of you

This piece was directly inspired by Warhol's portrait of Debbie Harry, to keep it authentic to the Amiga style, I created a pattern to would replicate CRT lines that would appear on older monitors. The name of the piece is taken from the song Daisy Bell, the first song to be sung by a computer.

  

Psychosomatic

To expand on Warhol's style, I experiemented with combining apsects of the face with abstract patterns to make a delibrately confusing image. All the faces I used were created on a website called This Person Does Not Exist, the website produces an AI generated face each time it's refreshed.

Corruption

I combined what I had learnt while creating ASCII art when working on this piece, I converted the face into ASCII and then combined it with the original. My idea was to show off the infecting nature of the digital world and how internet addiction can occur slowly overtime and not instantaneous.