DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.
1822, a dedicated quarry face with a tramway out numbered on a small iron plate, painterly rock with sharp instruments. Work 9878.
Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty. Work 9869.
Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crew of six in a floodlit trench under a slab edge cutting the sky, print struck to hold the sky white, dense transparency in hard sunlight. Work 9853.
A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 9841.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros. Work 9823.
A ladder bolted flat to a monolith face, block worn round at every edge, the second slab was never opened, ink gone rusty on a paper twist. Work 9810.
Poster paint illustration in flat colour of a group filling a convertible in the studio, Tri-X on a seamless backdrop, acrylic over an airbrushed ground. Work 9795.
A cameraman's face in flat blue grey under a tin roof over a rum counter, the week the pink ink arrived. Work 9793.
A figure standing with both arms raised beyond a bend of pale river, the shadow arrived first. Work 9780.
Rubber stamp print artwork of a sound man with headphones on one ear, reversal film with blocked highlights, open reel video tape frame. Work 9779.
A tank on a plinth covered in flowers, glasnost, fire damage assessment photograph, four colour process misregistration. Work 9773.
A woman in a halter dress lifting a chrome kettle and a man in a bold striped shirt at a calculator, tabloid nightlife photograph, magazine halftone at 150 lines. Work 9760.
An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut. Work 9730.
A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.
A pressure-tight line tender with rope over his shoulder in the second season under the ice, collodion positive on glass, chromolithograph in eight colours. Work 9714.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9699.
A tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands. Work 9691.
Muted pastels in a cold interior of a German nutcracker soldier in the Swiss Style years, K-14 processed Kodachrome. Work 9683.
A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 9675.
A bishop saint in a jewelled mitre and a broken quarry mended with a lead, hot ruby set against a cool blue, vitreous paint fired at 640 degrees. Work 9673.
A milkman's head in pale cyan over a flood of unmixed lime, a proof pulled before lunch, portrait print pulled in one colour pass, rosettes visible across the forehead. Work 9669.
Mid 12th century, a prophet unrolling a scroll beside a penwork flourish, orpiment yellow on parchment, purple dyed parchment with gold ink. Work 9664.
Dailies frame of a robot fisherman on a pier throughout a run of eighty copies, photo corner marks on the print, E-4 slide faded to pink. Work 9655.
Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing. Work 9641.
A kid-gloved man in a silk scarf with a phone in a case beside an apostle holding a closed book, around 1320, mirrored composition in wet tarmac. Work 9630.
A suited traveller against a wall of pure cyan at the edge of a widening white bar, the years without a horizon. Work 9620.
A bee-eater colony in a sandbank in old growth fir, the Polynesian voyaging years, chromolithograph with graded depth tints, chromolithograph in nine workings. Work 9619.
A hooded rider halted at a tower gate near the last tower above the ice, the reign of the last keeper. Work 9616.
The first season of the mast, a steward in a short white jacket in front of twelve men in matching tunics, letterpress with a tissue overlay, limelight aimed into a large space. Work 9615.