DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone. Work 9044.
A crowing rooster on a fence rail on a motel matchbook with a neon sign in 1953, Japanese matchbox label art, blind emboss with no ink at all. Work 9031.
A picket line breaking into a brawl inside a freight elevator in the week of the verdict, deep black built from three inks. Work 8805.
The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all. Work 8702.
Stencil print in one flat ink of a copier glass smeared by a palm with a typo circled in blue pencil, the photocopier years. Work 8654.
After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face. Work 8603.
A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 8588.
A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 8423.
A reprint nobody asked for: a neon sign spelling one word on a newsprint page gone tan, romance comic panel art in flat ink, overprint making a muddy orange. Work 8403.
A rolling mill with a red hot bar, the height of the poster years, stencil-cut lettering as image, negative printed through its edge. Work 8378.
A mortified contrail shadow in the Lebanese golden age, Rodenstock Imagon, neon sign light. Work 8343.
Reflection-heavy street composition of a neon-washed rickshaw cyclist standing on the pedals, well after the last clear summer, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 8336.
The third season on the bottom, an air reservoir of riveted plate near an anchor fluke in the mud, collodion negative varnished warm, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 8284.
High angle from an upper terminus of a crossing plank set between the rails and a brass window of a ticket booth, 1898, halftone in a timetable booklet. Work 8230.
The last summer before the road, a pink-marbled kitchen pass hung with copper pans stencilled with a stores number, haze filled lobby held perfectly level. Work 8190.
Day-glo lettering over a night sky of a twin-cam wind machine lifting nine capes, a session in 1975, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8181.
Czech matchbox label art of a cigar band on a rolled leaf in the post-war export years, strike grit shedding at an edge. Work 8085.
The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.
A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 7878.
A vertical sign stack four storeys high, the Suez crisis, tactile close view of rubber and fur, Diana plastic lens. Work 7798.
Silhouette of a tower against white cloud of a cinema marquee with letters missing in a tonic suit that shifts in the light, the spring of 1973. Work 7738.
A talent show handbill printed crooked photographed as a fishing tackle page with slipped hooks, bulk print job of eighty thousand, ink smear down the leading edge. Work 7668.
A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage. Work 7648.
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.
A grime-slick vent throwing steam across the crowd corrected to the latest survey, the age when signage outlived the state, hyper-detailed technical illustration. Work 7376.
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 steam locomotive seen head on under an arch of block letters, the middle 1950s, Cyrillic brand word in block capitals, abraded surface from a pocket. Work 7182.
The height of the poster years: a grease-marked loudspeaker horn against a circle, close crop on a machine part, rubber stamp ink smudged. Work 7077.
A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.