The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6368.Nobody is coming: a rooftop water tank on stilts in a future that kept its old machines, production concept painting, bloom around a bright sign.Work 6338.A counterweight trebuchet in a willy-willy in Christmas 1970, a fluorescent green cast.Work 6337.A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light.Work 6321.A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint.Work 6314.A dry lake bed in white glare at the foot of a rusted water tower, 16mm blow-up frame, bounce off a salt pan.Work 6294.Scout camp photograph of a work worn reflecting telescope under a cracking tower in the twenty-first century.Work 6222.Northern industrial documentary photograph of an ice halo under a stepped tower crown, 1882, Svema CO-32D reversal.Work 6195.A depth charge, the Rome Olympics year, Paubha painting, existing light.Work 6176.1932: a hyperboloid cathedral of concrete ribs at a mullion joint, municipal record photograph, aerial oblique from a light aircraft.Work 6137.A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals.Work 6132.An apartment block under construction in the style of a wardrobe standing open at the tideline, 1958.Work 6111.A sentry on a water tower platform across a field of ventifacts, the far side of the collapse.Work 6095.My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change.Work 6087.A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.1950: carnival banner line painting of a helter skelter lit from below in the glow of a ride front.Work 6037.A Mauresque grille over a stair window on a liner leaving port, 1926, pochoir print, varnished poster stock.Work 6030.A local water tower above the trees in 1966, headlights raking a field, developed at a drugstore lab.Work 6021.Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street.Work 5999.The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower.Work 5972.The post war years: a bush hammered precast concrete panel joint, perspective rendering in ink and wash, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 5965.A radio mast guyed with cable inside a rolling wall of dust, a hundred summers from now.Work 5900.A letter never posted and a peacock throne on the Barbican podium, the Vietnam years, resort photograph in colour.Work 5841.1928: a water tower on four legs at the end of a viaduct, dyeline print on tracing paper, medium format square negative.Work 5839.A finned rocket on a launch gantry in the style of a bold neon letters on a pylon sign on a cereal box premium, 1935.Work 5789.An atomic powered observation tower with a saucer top on a bowling alley forecourt, the atomic age, the artist was paid ninety dollars, offset lithography on tin.Work 5769.A cinematic photo of a skyscraper in a desert, kodachrome, cold light.Work 5749.A brewery vat twice as tall as it should be in a favela, the odd one out, photomontage, battleship grey.Work 5737.An indian clock winder on a tower stair repainted too many times, photo cube print, f16.Work 5730.A searchlight on a tower crown made of liner's promenade deck at night in Churchgate, the year the liner was launched, silver gelatin print.Work 5716.