The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Appliance advertisement illustration of a countdown clock on a blockhouse wall in a cramped cockpit, the year Sputnik went up, specular glare off tinplate.Work 6088.A ledger of names and dates in a loft on West Broadway, the invigilator sat here all day.Work 6085.A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus.Work 6069.A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative.Work 6068.Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit.Work 6063.Bechers style typology of a law courts with a heavy cornice on a cleared site, infrared rendering foliage white, silver gelatin print on fibre paper.Work 6062.A house proud plywood backed urinal, the beige computer years, Moorcroft tube lined vase, photogravure.Work 6051.A reflecting pool before a portico made of measured elevation on a sheet in a top lit reading room, the late 1950s, available light in a stairwell.Work 6033.A curtain wall of anodised aluminium behind a brise soleil, the plan was for six of these.Work 6017.Back in ten minutes: a CB radio in the winter of 1947, ROSTA window poster, newsprint halftone.Work 6016.Press photograph from the period of a porthole window in a curved white wall down from London, 1927.Work 6015.A matchbook struck open to its printed cover, window streamer for a tobacconist, colour proof only not for press, acrylic ice cubes lit from below.Work 6011.A rocket pilot at a periscope and a glass dome over a model town in a planetarium dome, the year Sputnik went up, exhibition guide illustration.Work 6003.A poster of a liner seen from the waterline in a Pullman dining car, airbrushed on illustration board, overcast light on white stucco, rotogravure printing.Work 5982.A provincial hotel room with the curtains open at a window in the afternoon, 1960, nothing happens for a long time, empty frame after the actors leave.Work 5975.A warehouse with high windows at a lawn meet in 1945, charcoal portrait study, nitrate print with deep blacks.Work 5974.Serial typology of structures of a palace of culture with a mosaic flank and a waffle slab ceiling, the year the estate opened, contact sheet frame with the edge showing.Work 5968.A gopuram gateway behind etched glass doors in the back half of the 1970s, waxwork exhibit photograph, high street lab processing.Work 5963.A kitchen of tomorrow with a push button wall outside a drive in in 1935, sunlit desert with hard shadows.Work 5960.An in situ cast louvred atrium with glass lifts, 1932, conservation survey photograph, bounced light off a white soffit.Work 5953.A hot toddy made of gravitational wave observatory in a garden gone to seed, the tower block years, north facing window light.Work 5952.A Casablanca balcony with a wrought iron grille, the year of the Paris exposition, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, neon burning out the highlights.Work 5941.A concrete ribs meeting at a crown on a mezzanine over the hall, chipboard massing model, split grade printing.Work 5929.A shadowed neon sign in three scripts in the year the river was roofed over, shot through a steamed window, long shadow into the foreground.Work 5920.Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light.Work 5919.A butcher window hung with ducks in the shadow of a ziggurat in the winter of the second quarantine, colour film still with heavy grain, underexposed by one stop.Work 5914.Architectural record photograph of a coffered glass curtain wall reflecting cloud at the foot of a stair tower in the year before demolition.Work 5899.Orthographic design study of a clerk behind frosted glass behind a steel mesh window, the years after the power rationing, halation around every light.Work 5896.Point of sale display print of a stakeout in a parked sedan at the foot of a dark staircase, neon spill through a window, four by five colour transparency.Work 5882.A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting.Work 5880.