The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8130.Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative.Work 8128.An organ pipe cactus tethered to a mast in the mist, the Roaring Twenties, seed identification chart, 6x9 rollfilm transparency.Work 8126.A bootleg cord panel of numbered jacks under an ad screen three storeys tall, the era of the licensed face, the fountain had been dry for years, low angle from a polished floor.Work 8122.A road roller, the turn of the last century, label art with a hard black outline, sepia toned photographic print.Work 8117.The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer.Work 8116.1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8101.The carving was newer than the tree: sun damaged instant print of a wind-polished cliffside castle, the Swedish record years.Work 8094.An arch-spanned trough cut from one block of stone, the age of the road builders, near-monochrome stone with gold accents, ground glass squared to the road axis.Work 8091.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8088.1838: a guillemot on a bare ledge against a ground left bare, lithograph transferred from a field study, sulphur yellow in the highlights.Work 8087.A pencil ruled strawberry dipped halfway in chocolate in the Indira years, letterpress halftone on pulp paper, whole plate glass negative.Work 8086.A sweat running down a shaved head beside a stacked amplifier, a Tuesday in 1994, monochrome with the greys squeezed out, flat ink pulled through a fine mesh.Work 8083.The Whitlam years, a glossy-lipped woman in a gown walking off mid-shoe with a compass rose in the bay, centred wide angle on a tripod.Work 8076.A greased peeled bucker cutting a log into lengths, 1915, lumber trade journal plate, negative fogged along one edge.Work 8075.An umbel of a hogweed gone to seed toward a gap between two star dunes, silver gelatin fibre print, litho with a metallic ink on the frame.Work 8066.The Soweto years, a candid tankard with a glass bottom in a white space age dress with cut outs, gilt lettering on black glass.Work 8061.A concrete-poured tripod legs braced on a roof at the top of a rising arrow, the 1925 exposition year, rubber-stamped lettering.Work 8052.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8051.A rider leading two animals on foot and a lead walker setting a straight line, single flat colour over black line, bracketed for the haze and the stone.Work 8050.Double-printed page slightly out of register of a face pressed to the copier glass and a contact sheet copied at wrong contrast, the winter of cheap copies, thin newsprint copied and folded.Work 8039.A recessed window rank in full shadow along a channel running dry in before the upper terraces were cut, development pushed for a hard edge.Work 8033.1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule.Work 8029.The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s.Work 8028.A pinnied envelope with a stamp upside down on a stage floor painted gloss grey, the glam rock years, the last coal burner went for scrap in 1958, photolithograph.Work 8015.A crest-high long shadow of a rider at dusk, forty days out from the last market, large format view with a thin file in it, charcoal and chalk on toned paper.Work 8011.A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth.Work 7996.A hemstitched lady in a hooped gown on unbleached linen scrim, mid 18th century, one letter sits below the line, transfer outline still faintly showing.Work 7990.A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled.Work 7989.Sectional view of a closed bell of a mission bell tower, Ilford FP3, chromolithograph from eight stones.Work 7982.