Nick Gentry’s Floppy (Disk) Art

Gentry, the artist who makes floppy disk art? Some of you may ask ‘what is a floppy disk’? If you asked that question, then I have very young readers. Else, you would know that they were the most widely used portable storage medium before CDs.

I still remember slotting in my favourite floppy disk which my dad bought for me – it was from the legendary Commander Keen series, titled: “Commander Keen and the Invasion of the Vorticons – Marooned on Mars“! I had hours of endless fun playing it (come to think of it, this could be the origin of my game addiction problem) until the PC gave up on us one day. Back then, not being the geek I am today, we were at the mercy of the folks who ran computer stores to fix the computer.

I seemed to have digressed very much from Nick Gentry…

Yes, so Gentry’s a one of a kind artist and he brings the obsolete (floppy disks) back to life via his art. His works are predominantly portraits done on floppy disks, fusing art eternally with old storage media, giving the disks a different way of functioning but still keeping in line with its original aim – storage.

Here are some of Gentry’s works.

For more – visit his website

Imagesource: gentry

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