DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A figure ringed by six shifting discs inside a tank of still shallow water, the year the lamps were replaced, full figure small inside a dark frame, two heads at full power and no fill. Work 7280.
Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour. Work 7261.
A slicked gangster's profile in flat scarlet inside a bus station of flat panels, the second sitting, the pink was mixed until it hurt to look at, photo-stencil portrait print. Work 7242.
A tape traded hand to hand up the spine of a taped case, biro lettering enlarged on a copier, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 6919.
Gouache poster illustration of a sweat-slicked doorman refusing nobody at four in the morning, the spring of 1980, lens flare across chrome trim. Work 6855.
A door of steel plate set in concrete in the style of a slab wall with a grid of deep windows without a tree anywhere in sight, the second era of the quarries. Work 6790.
A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 6747.
The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges. Work 6733.
A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light. Work 6668.
A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching. Work 6613.
A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period. Work 6574.
A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display. Work 6571.
A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light. Work 6562.
A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement. Work 6500.
The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image. Work 6491.
The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light. Work 6422.
An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens. Work 6400.
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.
A man in Ultrasuede in a mirrored lift, the summer of 1979. Work 6298.
A sweating shoe left under a table in a nightclub bathroom, the summer of 1980, Tod Papageorge style photograph. Work 6290.
A streamlined bus station forecourt on a dance floor in the summer of 1937, etched glass panel, theatrical footlights from below. Work 6119.
A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights. Work 6078.
A terrazzo floored stylised eagle over a post office door, 1940, duotone in black and gold. Work 6065.
An apartment lobby with a terrazzo compass on the Bund at dusk, pencil and wash study, large format with a shift lens. Work 6057.
A zigzagged lobby directory in gilt letters at a petrol station of white tile, 1936, Art Deco poster in flat colour. Work 6031.
A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored. Work 6027.
An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down. Work 5915.
A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens. Work 5887.
A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board. Work 5885.
The second take was the one they used: an end lockup with a logo panel in 1979, in store demonstration segment, herringbone interference pattern. Work 5858.