Computer Cities

American Artist Franco Recchia has created mini 3D landscapes of cities by recycling old computers that would otherwise be thrown away and come to rest in land fill sites never to used again. Some pieces are recreations of well known American cities – Manhattan, Boston, Central Park.

(Image: Franco Recchia)

His media is a mixture of metals odds and ends such as heat sinks, RAMs, disk controllers, electronic connectors, chipsets, microprocessors and TV tuners, anything that you can pull out of a computer basically. For most of us, an old broken computer is lost to the world with no hope of us being able to tinker about and fix, let alone reuse. But by salvaging the insides of computers Franco brings them back from the brink of the rubbish dump in the form of a metallic city and gives them a new, and beautiful, lease of life.

 (Image: Franco Recchia)

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