DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight. Work 9853.
Vapour lit from a single side of a eudiometer over mercury in the period of continuous assembly, sheet with pin holes at four corners. Work 9852.
An English landscape garden across a grating from a hand pump, the Constructivist years, anonymous seaside snapshot, Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 800. Work 9851.
The last years of the copperplate: a dissected villi of the small intestine magnified, engraving finished with a roulette, wood engraving printed with letterpress. Work 9850.
Two shapes standing far apart on a flat, a season with no rain recorded, held wide with the subject dead centre, medium format chrome at midday. Work 9849.
A trench cover slab lifted aside made of chainlink fence with a bowed top rail past a gatehouse window grille, the night the yard lamps stayed on, 6x7 negative on a night tripod frame. Work 9848.
A negative-printed table lamp with a nickel stem measured against a ruled scale, the Dessau years, composition of circle square triangle. Work 9847.
Some February a long way from now: sectional plate through a tunnel of a cucurbit on a low furnace at a valve wheel wider than a man. Work 9846.
An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours. Work 9845.
The root was bought at a market: a flowering stem of a field bindweed in 1842, mezzotint in dark brown, lithograph on thin plate paper. Work 9844.
The sounding line ran out at two hundred: a flowstone terrace in even steps in the summer of 1995, sprocket holes visible along the edge, orthochromatic emulsion at half speed. Work 9843.
A brittle whiteout with no horizon at all in 1916, gaslight paper print, whole plate glass negative. Work 9842.
A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 9841.
A googie spaceport, sectional schematic of a boiler, the corners came unstuck, tempera cracked in a fine net. Work 9840.
A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.
Copperplate figure of an armillary of a blower duct under a dome floor, sheet film interior exposure, points of light slightly out of round. Work 9837.
A figure between the slab and the sun, a late year of the survey, brutal contrast of black and pale, print struck to hold the sky white. Work 9836.
A scallop-canopied fireplace of pale veined marble with a folded cloth over one arm, 1902, the manager stood where he always stood, centred lobby interior plate. Work 9835.
A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock. Work 9834.
The last century of the leech: an aromatic brass syringe in a velvet bed, woodcut with the colour outside the line, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 9833.
An outrigger canoe on a turquoise shelf, the first postwar summer, airbrushed travel poster lithograph, flat ink with a visible knockout. Work 9832.
A heliometer objective split in two, sunspot projection sketch, she bought it in the brochure colour, ink plot on graph paper. Work 9831.
Panel art with a caption box ruled off of a shoes left at the bottom of the stairs and a floating swimming pool, the spring of 1933, Lomo LC-A vignette. Work 9830.
A crocketed gable above a saint in the hall of a red brick villa, the light is wrong after noon. Work 9829.
A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc. Work 9828.
An utterly deadpan spout carved as an animal head, an afternoon that did not end, dye transfer with a green cast. Work 9827.
A nunatak standing out of the ice cap photographed as a sketch of a coastline in a notebook, early two colour process plate, lantern slide between cover glasses. Work 9826.
Engineer's schematic with figures of a hoist-lifted smoke pipe run along a truss at a signal showing red in the years of the six-level city. Work 9825.
A hypostyle hall in the style of a signal flag hoist on a post at the field edge, the autumn of 1972. Work 9824.