DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light. Work 7092.
A bell pit collapsed in a field, the year of the lockout, mine inspector's evidence photograph, stereo pair on a printed mount. Work 7091.
A rocket-powered code clerk at a teleprinter, a giant sized special, splash page panel art, a register mark left inside the trim. Work 7090.
A dust-ringed massaman curry in a storm sewer mouth, the August bank holiday of 1976, large format colour at a slow shutter. Work 7089.
A sculpting tool left beside a figure photographed as a clay well with a cotton string bucket, tilt up a leaning clay spire, telecined to two inch quadruplex tape. Work 7088.
A perfumed woman in a tailored waistcoat holding two flutes beside a couple wrapped in a white quilt on black hide, the last good quarter, poster illustration in hot enamel colour. Work 7087.
An airless bolted-together suit stand with a helmet on the shelf, the last of the crewed stations, concept illustration in cold greys, lith print with a crushed shadow. Work 7086.
A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf. Work 7085.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7084.
Red chalk over black chalk of a half section through a pomegranate on a sheet water-stained at one corner, heliotype in a soft grey, collotype of an earlier engraving. Work 7083.
Photomontage travel poster of a tram climbing a seafront hill on an enamel station sign, the 1931 winter season, four-colour offset lithograph. Work 7082.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7081.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7080.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7079.
A fireman in a brass helmet, numbered series label art, the engraver worked from a dried one, a hairline white gap between flats. Work 7078.
The height of the poster years: a grease-marked loudspeaker horn against a circle, close crop on a machine part, rubber stamp ink smudged. Work 7077.
A block standing alone on open hardpan and a lift shaft with its doors removed at the edge of a deep road cut, the fourth construction decade, static frame with a symmetrical mass. Work 7076.
Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 7075.
An acrid flake of white arsenic in a phial hung from a beam to dry, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, transfer printed lettering on tin glaze. Work 7074.
A directional arrow on a wall inside a darkroom's red light, the last Berlin year. Work 7073.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 7072.
A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers. Work 7071.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 7070.
The newsstand years, a cab roof seen from twelve storeys up against a red dot gradient, flatbed scan of a reading copy, staple rust at the middle fold. Work 7069.
The pigment ate through the skin: egg tempera miniature with gold leaf of a scraped rubric in vermilion, late 15th century. Work 7068.
Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency. Work 7067.
A reservoir with a concrete spillway, the last season before cartons, graded sky from orange to violet, stipple stone giving a soft tone. Work 7066.
A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print. Work 7065.
Stone and water treated as one material of a haze-greyed gold light coming in low through a door in the fifth bay gone to pale grey in the age when gold was still on the plaster. Work 7064.
A latex worm creature in three coils photographed as a hide painted in three rubber washes, grain heavy dupe of a composite, shadow detail lost in a dupe. Work 7063.