The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes.Work 6969.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.The key came back on the wrong hook: baths of white tile in a row in the months nobody travelled by day, wide angle interior with true verticals, registration soft on the far ridge.Work 6931.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 hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph.Work 6803.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate.Work 6706.A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 6680.A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period.Work 6574.An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers.Work 6537.A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.A Hatzegopteryx, Christmas 1945, safety film still, copper toned print.Work 6407.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400.Work 6300.Lacquer panel painting of a lacquered cabinet with shagreen panels in a terrazzo entrance hall, 1933, gouache on grey board.Work 6285.A mink collared bathroom mirror in a nightclub beside a mirrored ceiling over a floor, the last year of the 1970s, point of sale display print.Work 6155.A patron asleep at a counter on the far side of a rain curtain, mixed colour temperature, practical lamps in frame, HMI through a rain bar.Work 6126.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame.Work 5838.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.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.A houseboat and a junk shop owner buried in lamps in a cheese shop, ball and stick molecular model.Work 5535.A jury room table in the style of a Panama hat, oven light.Work 5481.An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers.Work 5461.A dinghy in the style of a lenticular cloud, Kurosawa film still, airing cupboard bulb.Work 5266.A curmudgeonly darts final in an empty corridor, Wifredo Lam canvas, fly posted layers, carnival bulbs.Work 4847.A mosaic difference engine covered in tar and feathers, Voyager flyby image, wrestling entrance lights.Work 4738.