DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film. Work 6732.
A sound horn behind a dome panel under a mirror ball over the rink in the peak of the roller craze, collotype plate in a museum volume. Work 6731.
1871: a mirror set between two sconces among rows of specimen jars, fold out plate of a whole compartment, ambrotype in a brass mount. Work 6730.
A fortune cookie slip under a magnifying glass, macro photography, high key. Work 6729.
A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked. Work 6728.
Survey frame with the horizon level of a stair landing with one bulb burning and a tower of raw concrete on a rock spur, the last of the great pours, acrylic on a concrete-toned ground. Work 6727.
An immense white-striped leech on a wet ankle, the month the flares ran out, bloomed highlight frame, front element fogged with damp. Work 6726.
The middle 1980s, a dock-edged live oak alone in a pasture nailed to a raw pine end, trade mark animal in flat colour. Work 6725.
A windowless slab centred in amber dust along a straight approach road in the survey years, sectional schematic of a wall, shift lens keeping verticals true. Work 6724.
A steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag. Work 6723.
A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame. Work 6722.
He lost two fingers to a choker: pen and wash camp sketch of a sawdust-covered fire lookout above a smoke haze, the last big drive. Work 6721.
An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph. Work 6720.
Photolithograph from a wash original of a calibrated kilim, the autumn of 1969, flash negative with a blown centre. Work 6719.
A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard. Work 6718.
Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns. Work 6717.
Mid 13th century, a tooled stag caught in a briar with a scroll in one hand, Parisian atelier work of small scale. Work 6716.
A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground. Work 6715.
A figures filling jars in turn on a coping stone worn to a curve, the well was where the map said. Work 6714.
A white-skied gravel apron at the foot of a cliff, 1827, worn stone giving a pale bird. Work 6713.
A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red. Work 6712.
A deer head trophy with the stewards lined up behind, the ice storm of 1998, delftware tile, high contrast film positive of mesh. Work 6711.
A cardboard shop front with a tissue window on a pavement of scored cardboard, the second baseboard of 1974. Work 6710.
The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers. Work 6709.
Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up. Work 6708.
Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres. Work 6707.
A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate. Work 6706.
The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string. Work 6705.
A flowering branch of a magnolia beside a collector's pencilled note in the 1840s, silver in the dark tones going brown. Work 6704.
The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold. Work 6703.