第二篇: People started tackling the idea of combining visual art and technology since the 1960s. The first attempt to
bring together technology and art in the creative process happened in 1967. Back then, a group of artists worked
with engineers and scientists from the famous Bell Laboratories to create groundbreaking performances
incorporating new technology. These first installations and performances promoting the use of technology in
creating art set a cornerstone for further digital art development. Andy Warhol was known as one of the most influential artists who used modern technology, such as video,
film and screen printing, to make his art more visible and accessible. However, it is a little-known fact that
Warhol was also one of the pioneers of digital art. He created digital drawings on an Amiga computer to advertise
the computer system and their software program as a brand ambassador for the computer company, Commodore
International. All of this happened in 1985, but Andy Warhol’s digital art pieces were lost and forgotten until
2014 when they were discovered and recovered by artist Cory Arcangel, a New York City based multimedia artist
and a fanatic Andy Warhol fan, in the attempt to find and restore the images by staff and student members of
Carnegie Mellon University’s computer club. From July 2017 to November 2019, the Warhol Museum exhibited
these historic pieces of Warhol’s groundbreaking digital art using the original medium, a vintage Amiga
computer. The nineties brought the internet and started the technology revolution. People soon recognized the vast
possibilities of this virtual global network, and the digital art scene started booming. The internet helped
numerous artists make their artwork more visible, with increasing accessibility to worldwide audiences.
Advanced technology also enabled the artist to transform and manipulate their artwork, thus becoming a
significant art medium. 【題組】10. Which of the following is NOT supported by the passage?
(A) Cory Arcangel was an artist and a fan of Andy Warhol.
(B) Andy Warhol was famous for using technology in art.
(C) Modern technology has greatly helped artists in their creative process.
(D) Many engineers at Bell Laboratories were also artists.