Photo: Nick Gentry/Barcroft Media/Landov
Despite what F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, there are apparently second acts in the lives of technological gadgets. This portrait, a product of the ongoing Xchange project by London-based artist Nick Gentry, is a collage made from plastic floppy discs, used discarded X-rays, and film negatives. The aim of the project is to take obsolete technologies and turn them into art.












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Willie Jones
Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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