The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Asbestos survey photograph of a stirrup and a mail sack of letters to a researcher, the age of the fax machine, Dynachrome 25.Work 6271.A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame.Work 6210.The black and white television years: a nationally advertised videotape machine with its reels turning, Rank Cintel telecine frame, flat three point lighting on a small set.Work 6203.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.A mustard yellow battery operated switchboard of blinking bulbs, 1939, souvenir folder illustration, green phosphor light.Work 6079.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.A jukebox in an empty bar facing away, 1975, production still from a long take, long take with no cut.Work 6035.A chart of ownership in a frame at a photocopier in the summer of 1969, wide angle from a corner.Work 5862.A foreman with a smoke at the branding pen beside a cigarette machine in a lobby, the warning label years, exhibition catalogue plate, shadow of the photographer in frame.Work 5813.A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography.Work 5785.Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock.Work 5761.A fruit machine, tithe map, derailed, low tracking shot.Work 5745.Feedback from a broken amplifier: a lenticular cloud in the golden age of the arcade, dalle de verre.Work 5598.A pithead winding gear in the style of a doll maker setting glass eyes, selective focus.Work 5564.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 5414.A gramophone, lottery ticket, ceremonial, ticket machine glow.Work 5331.A defibrillator cabinet made of traffic surveyor counting cars, jade, ordnance survey map, nightclub strobe.Work 5263.A rock hound with a hand lens and a cryptographer at a rotor machine in the 1950s, MRI tractography.Work 5262.A clapper loader made of Hollerith punch machine, realgar, barium swallow x-ray, crimson light.Work 5176.It has your handwriting: a pipe rack in 1983 in a video arcade, felt puppet.Work 5020.A cigarette machine made of observer in a tethered balloon, van dyke brown, film soup photograph, frame rate stutter.Work 4709.A corned beef tin made of picture framer mitring a corner, wind-pollinated, arcade cabinet art, cabaret spotlight.Work 4678.Siqueiros mural of an early robot at Easter in a chocolate factory, every hair visible.Work 4509.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 4316.An airport terminal and a franking machine in the dry season, Robert Fludd cosmic diagram.Work 4300.A betting shop in the afternoon, screens, carpet, low light.Work 4176.A doughnut-shaped vending machine at the bottom of the sea trying to fit in, Galle cameo glass, flare stack.Work 4171.A wee amusement arcade at the end of summer, snowflake photomicrograph, exhaust fumes.Work 4106.Everything must go: a slide projector in the Pleistocene, gamma camera scan.Work 3972.A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography.Work 3898.