Nick Gentry is a modern artist who uses different types of mediums to create his images. It's probably just best if I show you some images and discuss the medium type and how it relates to art and technology:
If you look closely, Nick uses different types of x-ray images to construct the lower portion of this woman's feature. The mid section all appear to be negatives from pictures that have been taken. The top section is a combination of the two. This is artistically interesting and relevant due to the fact that most of these x-rays could not have been produced if not for special machines that took them. When looking at the actual artistic value in this piece, we see that the part of the images that actually represent memories and good times are all focused around the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and partially the brain. In contrast, all the x-ray images take up areas of a human that are less important to keeping memories.
Here is another piece by Nick Gentry:
The choices of medium may have a bit more to do with the technological side of the art. By using data storage devices, such as floppy disks and CDs, the artist is making a direct correlation to the modern human and the technology they rely on to function.
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