The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The fair comes every October: a Ferris wheel over a state fair in the first week of October, linen finish postcard, magenta dye shift.Work 6341.A marble hall with a staircase under a cedar on a lawn, Kodachrome resort photograph, background painted out.Work 6340.1941: a camera pointed at an empty room over a model highway city, model shot with wires, taped to the wall with masking tape.Work 6339.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 feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6336.A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key.Work 6335.A window streamer taped inside the glass on a forest service road, 1976.Work 6334.The VHS years: a bleach smelling sugar refinery, culvert inspection photograph, magnesium flash powder.Work 6333.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.An earnest shape over a hayfield beside a photographic analyst at a light box, the summer of 1967, topographic map detail.Work 6331.The Expo 58 year, a diving beetle carrying an air bubble under a concrete canopy, Rollei Ortho 25, Fujicolor Super HG 400.Work 6330.1935, a friction powered rolled towel on a chair back with a meter on its chest, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6329.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.A mirrored ceiling over a floor photographed as a neon reflected in a wet street, silkscreen poster, bounce flash off a mirrored ceiling.Work 6327.Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957.Work 6326.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.A bush hammered concrete pier, serial typology of structures, the lifts have been out for months, low winter sun raking a facade.Work 6324.An oil-streaked speedometer cracked in its housing, the end of the age of engines, veiling flare across the frame.Work 6323.An organ player on a jingle session and a razor pulled through shaving foam, network feed frame, varnished poster stock.Work 6322.A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light.Work 6321.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.Warhol style silkscreen portrait of a reinstalled Bozak mixer under a lamp on a strip of land beside a highway in the tail end of the 1970s.Work 6319.Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head.Work 6318.A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind.Work 6317.An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932.Work 6316.A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture.Work 6315.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.William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows.Work 6313.A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame.Work 6312.