The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling.Work 7925.A mooring block with a shackle in it between two matched lifting eyes, 1864.Work 7821.Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper.Work 7699.A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism.Work 7632.Overhead plate of a spread chart of a precisely flanked sounding figures in a fine even hand, the year the hall was panelled, collotype in a survey volume.Work 7527.A bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame.Work 7461.A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore.Work 7014.An abyssal plankton net dripping over a bucket, the mid 1930s, depth figure written in the corner.Work 6957.Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent.Work 6934.A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light.Work 6907.A flyer overlapping a poster for a film throughout an underpass papered solid, the morning after a show, grainy monochrome at arm's length, cheap paper that would not last a week.Work 6839.A skid road greased with dogfish oil, union local bulletin illustration, the drive hung up for eleven days, wood engraved reproduction.Work 6745.A sound horn behind a dome panel under a mirror ball over the rink in the peak of the roller craze, collotype plate in a museum volume.Work 6731.The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre.Work 6702.1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.A bathing costume drying on a wall, 1969, Italian beach club poster, orange fade of an old print.Work 6246.A rocket with a checkerboard tail made of flying saucer on landing legs at a periscope, the late 1930s, Technicolor three strip.Work 6183.A bowl of noodles under a heat lamp in a courtyard hung with laundry, ENR silver retention, single hard key with no fill, push processed one stop.Work 6150.A ventilation fan behind a grille photographed as a laundry line strung between towers, wire service photograph, printed dark for reproduction.Work 6120.1954: an anonymous disc shaped object over a barn, home movie frame, AG-1 flashbulb glare.Work 6113.Photostat of a documentation photograph in a frame, bare bulb in a basement, photostat contrast.Work 5886.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed.Work 5787.A stamped date on a blank page on a Scottish moor, 1968, certificate in a plain frame, contact printed at full size.Work 5763.A puncture repair kit made of Foucault pendulum, soapstone, Ezra Stoller photograph, spring light.Work 5708.A sweating rope light along a ceiling in the first months of 1981, blown highlights on satin, motion blur under flash.Work 5644.Aubusson tapestry of a shoebox diorama of the deep sea in weather from another planet, deep focus.Work 5568.A giant seed catalogue in a recycling centre, lobby still, through chain link, everyone blurred but one.Work 5470.