User:Borys k



Born in former Czechoslovakia (today's Slovakia, Central Europe), Boris Kalinin has formed an art movement he himself refers to as 'Digital Retro' with an intention of depicting and bringing out the feelings of the people being behind the history of today's modern computer technology.

Career as a painter
Drawing on his personal experience in early stages of computing, his paintings show his feelings that accompanied him and his fellow computer programmers on their way through the modern history of computing. Works are often simple, corresponding to the simplicity of old computer hardware and software. The deep influence by the computer technology results in frequent appearance of entities related to computers e.g. many paintings contain mouse cursors, fragments of programming language code, pictures and heroes from old computer games and visual rendition of things that are usually not visible, like Turing Machine or byte array. All the paintings are considered to be Pop-art drawings with a sense of originality brought by using the fragments and facts from the history of computer hardware and software.