The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8988.The black plate was left in a cupboard: a robot octopus repairing a submarine in the first winter of the 1940s, grey scale test exposure, cine frame enlarged past its grain.Work 8879.The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow.Work 8862.An ear-defended xerox-blown fuse box with a hand written label, the years counted by crossings, matte painting with a live column in it, time base error across a frame.Work 8859.A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 8827.Scale contrast with an enormous vessel of a shelf of blank faces on stands and a security officer at a laboratory gate, two revisions past the first schematic, chrome reflection of a lit ceiling.Work 8615.A rushed toy catalogue robot printed twice in the quarter the press was overdue a service, broken type where the plate scratched, green where the flesh should be.Work 8561.A robot with a glass dome head, inked line over pencil roughs, the printer lost the yellow plate, a price stamped over the logo.Work 8453.A sulphur-toned rust-hazed pressure gauge in a brass case on a wall, the survey years, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, slow film at a small aperture.Work 8431.Combat photographer's frame of an ash strewn spectroheliograph, the World Cup summer of 1962, Kodak T-Max P3200.Work 8328.A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth.Work 8235.A henchmen in matching turtlenecks in the style of a paratrooper cutting his harness in the shadow of a giant robot, a giant sized special.Work 8221.A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor.Work 8187.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8186.A road roller, the turn of the last century, label art with a hard black outline, sepia toned photographic print.Work 8117.A blueprint of a machine with no purpose, cyanotype, fold creases.Work 8099.Every copy was dubbed at high speed: photocopied insert at brutal contrast of an eight-up four track recorder with all lights on, the week the deck ate a tape.Work 8044.1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule.Work 8029.1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate.Work 8020.The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner.Work 7938.A winder drum with wound rope inside the winding engine house, 1911, mining engineering journal plate, two colour offset print.Work 7921.A heaped with ice venturi tube with pressure tappings, 1874, collotype of a spectrum photograph, press agency print with a caption pasted on.Work 7891.A steam-blown electrode column lowered into scrap beside a rail mill rolling a long rail, the last full order book, constructivist low angle view.Work 7848.A control room of lit buttons against a flat cyan ground, comic art thickened for a coarse screen, tape marks along two edges.Work 7838.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7801.An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer.Work 7727.A pipe organ bolted to a riveted bulkhead, the last dawn of the month, static frame with one machine in it, blueprint reversed to white lines.Work 7693.A film loop flickering on a sheet and a second drummer on a steel oil barrel beside an empty machine plinth, the tour with no signed contract, machinery portrait under one lamp.Work 7691.The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat.Work 7629.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7567.