DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light. Work 9716.
A column standing alone in open water beside one column struck by late sun, the years the boats came inside, orthographic elevation of an arcade, single sheet exposed at slack water. Work 9690.
An unblended flat-inked dentist's lamp swung down, the giant holiday number, figure reduced to outline and tint, guide lines left printed on the sheet. Work 9678.
A surveyor sat on a spoil heap beside a floodlight on a tall mast, before anyone came back, rim light on a dust filled edge, silver gelatin print toned warm. Work 9639.
A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows. Work 9618.
A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944. Work 9602.
A lacrosse stick, poster style label with three flats, the one who did not stay, Kodak Panatomic-X 32. Work 9577.
1852: engraving after a wax model of white corpuscles of five kinds beside a scale bar in millimetres. Work 9555.
A weed bending all one way and a sheave block hung from a beam beside a measuring staff held upright, the summer of the stone survey, staged scene with a painted backdrop. Work 9523.
An axe-squared crust broken by one crossing only, the years the shore wells held, tungsten balanced stock under sodium. Work 9510.
A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 9495.
A fish and chips on a windy pier who does not speak, the VHS years, silver stained glass roundel, a torn corner. Work 9440.
Somebody thumbed the sky flat by mistake: a plasticine bird with a foil beak in a wet Tuesday in 1966, pencil test transferred to tape, film can label written in marker. Work 9433.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9388.
Antiquarian plate of a colossal ruin of a cutwater shaped like a wedge along a cutting with tooled faces, platinum print on smooth rag, graphite on hot pressed paper. Work 9385.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9347.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9335.
Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range. Work 9319.
A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot. Work 9314.
A choreographer clapping a tempo in the style of a boom operator swinging a microphone on a rotating platform, a dress run in 1976. Work 9299.
A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds. Work 9234.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9222.
Dead symmetrical group composition of a delegate with a hood moulded to the head at a rope stretched between two posts, the year the floodlights were installed, single-pass print on gloss stock. Work 9220.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9219.
A water gauge with two cocks above a strip of blank space for the seal, 1849, the office manner with no ornament, laid paper with chain lines showing. Work 9218.
A vertebral column from the side between two columns of reference letters, the year the atlas was reprinted. Work 9203.
A column of walkers with bells tied to the wrist, a season with no feast in it, procession treated as a single object, print with a cool cast in the shadows. Work 9193.
A two structures set in exact line past a line of broken pillars, large format chrome in bright sun, 65mm negative with a clean gate, oil on linen with a thin ground. Work 9189.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9162.
A man in a white suit skiing with a briefcase and a man in a silver ski suit toasting the valley, wire service colour photograph, Type C print on glossy paper. Work 9113.