The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9763.Oasis palms beside a still pool above a fireplace in a lounge car in the 1937 season, poster reduced to five shapes, ink stamp of the printing house.Work 9762.Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles.Work 9761.A woman in a halter dress lifting a chrome kettle and a man in a bold striped shirt at a calculator, tabloid nightlife photograph, magazine halftone at 150 lines.Work 9760.A bereft rust-scabbed winding engine, the Joseon dynasty, acrylic concept illustration, Kodak Ektapan 100.Work 9759.A sensor mast planted beside a face photographed as a tent line in the lee of a monolith, no fill light on the shadow side, orthochromatic stock with a white sun.Work 9758.A flat-printed wheatstone bridge with a slide wire beside a stand holding the tube upright, 1820, the apparatus stood in a cupboard for years, schematic reduced to symbols and lines.Work 9757.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge.Work 9756.Severe frontal framing of a gateway of a Terylene ijiraq, the Streamline Moderne years, Wollensak Verito.Work 9755.Feather edges left as bare paper of a swallow gathering mud with the crest raised, 1785.Work 9754.Oil on panel in the Dutch manner of an eye bath of blue glass on a marble slab worn hollow, before the pharmacopoeia was fixed, albumen print gone yellow at the edge.Work 9753.A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 9752.A doilied Carpenter Gothic cottage, the Fauve years, miniature effects unit still, 126 Verichrome Pan.Work 9751.A blown-out taxi driver's face in flat amber inside a magazine cover crop, an hour before dawn, straight-on architectural record.Work 9750.Courtyard sunk two floors into rock on a roof deck with no railing, monochrome with a cold concrete grey, exposure set to hold the shutter marks.Work 9749.A town plan with the streets named on a proof pull before the names went on in 1745, print on paper with a crown watermark.Work 9748.Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9747.Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor.Work 9746.A winter of modelling in 1962: a tissue glazed lifeboat davit against a green sea, daylight simulation from one hard lamp, rotogravure section printing.Work 9745.A lancet window with a standing saint picked out of a dark matt, mid 15th century, bold cutline with few leads in a face, pot metal glass leaded with painted trace.Work 9744.Survey photograph made from the air of a sign-lit marker post leaning in loose sand toward a horizon with nothing on it in the years the maps stopped agreeing.Work 9743.A sodium-lit sodium lamp left on above the stage across a turbine hall floor, the night after the roof let in rain, deadpan documentary portrait.Work 9742.A perfectly square four masses set at even spacing measured four times and never alike, the years of the false readings, orbital plate looking straight down.Work 9741.A bilingual pipe resting on a tobacco tin beside a match count in figures, the late 1950s, nobody kept the boxes only the labels, Czech matchbox label art.Work 9740.The second station generation, a capsule rising past a station flank against a stencilled hazard band, film exposed for the sunlit hull, print developed for maximum black.Work 9739.A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view.Work 9738.Portrait on newsprint at speed of a press photograph reduced to a stencil, print photographed under a hard lamp, two colours out of register by a hair.Work 9737.A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969.Work 9736.A drive-in screen over parked roofs, the hundredth issue, romance comic panel art in flat ink, paper stretched between two runs.Work 9735.A slow-hauling salt-blinded salt block waymark whitening further, the season the pan stayed dry, composition with the sky filling two thirds, polariser cutting the sheen off brine.Work 9734.