The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The Weimar years: a pavilion of concrete and glass on a mirror with a hard edge, geometric abstraction in flat colour, laid paper with visible chain lines.Work 7377.A gantry walkway at hull height beside a window band curving away, oil pigment print on rag paper, heliogravure with a fine grain, diazo print with pale blue lines.Work 7352.A dust and vapour hanging in a light shaft under a bar of light on the water, an age of one drip and no other sound.Work 7332.A roof parapet with one figure on it with a person for size at its base, after the concrete plant closed, presentation illustration in ink and wash, carbon transfer with a deep black.Work 7329.A tumbling hangar deck with a ship inside, the age of hard shadow, scan with the negative edge included.Work 7238.Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album.Work 7163.A rocket nosecone in a scrapyard and a pelota court, botanical type specimen photograph, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod.Work 6971.A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966.Work 6738.Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour.Work 6662.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph.Work 6621.A future built over an older one: video still from a security feed of a radio set with a lit dial in an alley two metres wide.Work 6525.Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped.Work 6456.Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years.Work 6393.The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print.Work 6381.A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century.Work 6377.A washed out Terylene reel to reel in a studio, the paper dress years, polar expedition plate, Ferrania P30.Work 6292.Filipino jeepney art panel of a self important slider phone in a flooded basement in 2029.Work 6272.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 6142.An atrium under a glazed roof under a monsoon sky, the reconstruction years, demolition record photograph, matte print with no gloss.Work 6001.A warehouse with high windows at a lawn meet in 1945, charcoal portrait study, nitrate print with deep blacks.Work 5974.A painted rounding board with the panels off, 1952, Daniel Meadows style photograph, long exposure at night.Work 5969.A parabolic dish tracking the sky and a rocket nose cone in polished alloy on a control room floor, the year of the fair, hand lettered sign painting.Work 5949.Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall.Work 5943.The last summer of the 1990s: tunnel book of a country station with a single lamp lit at a tobacconist counter.Work 5923.A foam spread across a pane of glass and a station break slide with the call letters in a sound stage with the doors shut, the late 1960s, super laid over a still.Work 5909.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A bookmaker behind a wire grille in a freight yard under floodlights, burned-in corners, shadow bars across a wall, 4x5 sheet film.Work 5889.A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights.Work 5870.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.