The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage.Work 7692.A weeknight in 1981: a soda-sticky team in matching tops crossing the floor, menu board illustration, lens flare off chrome wheels.Work 7679.Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout.Work 7661.A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage.Work 7604.The Three Kingdoms period, a caving beside a magenta warning lamp, contact print of a whole roll, fifty copies dubbed over one weekend.Work 7281.The season finale, an export-stamped rehearsal run with the house lights up with the gum still shining, opening titles in chrome lettering.Work 7193.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 7157.A directional arrow on a wall inside a darkroom's red light, the last Berlin year.Work 7073.A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior.Work 6960.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 6791.Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set.Work 6755.The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light.Work 6657.A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball.Work 6627.The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph.Work 6611.A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog.Work 6567.The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar.Work 6529.A motel conference room lectern photographed as a motel sign with a creature on it, blurred telephoto frame, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6506.Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt.Work 6504.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.A tram passing a shuttered shop on an amusement pier, the last night of the fair, Gevacolor frame, north light in a bare room.Work 6388.A pier arcade at midday outside an amusement arcade in 1977, British Railways poster, shot against the light.Work 6344.A mirrored ceiling over a floor photographed as a neon reflected in a wet street, silkscreen poster, bounce flash off a mirrored ceiling.Work 6327.William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows.Work 6313.The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light.Work 6301.The atomic age: an antenna topped turntable with a car revolving on it, exhibition guide illustration, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6274.A rooftop sign in tubular neon made of proscenium arch with stepped mouldings under a frosted glass globe, the winter of 1933, neon burning out the highlights.Work 6248.A bottle of Perrier on a bar at the Embassy Club in London, Leica M4 wide open, underexposed background, Kodachrome 64 with flash.Work 6234.Club logo in chrome lettering of a Lagos nightclub stage at a smoked glass table, the summer of 1979, harsh direct flash.Work 6205.A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting.Work 6172.Flashed glass roundel of an eel made of neon tubing on a boat train platform, 1942, polished black glass with a reflection.Work 6166.