The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A traffic signal swinging on a wire under a shrine box on a wall in the decade after the blackout, hard backlight through haze.Work 6433.A ranger station notice board in the style of a scrap of foil in a shoebox in a diner booth, 1987.Work 6352.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.An affidavit signed at the bottom never printed at full size, 1991, paperback book cover plate, Kodachrome II.Work 6100.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6055.A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust.Work 5995.The early 1980s: an amusement arcade doorway beside a beach house in Japan, seaside postcard, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 5973.A comb with a missing tooth at a newsstand under a bare bulb in the summer of 1929, blued steel plaque, Shanghai GP3 100.Work 5829.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor.Work 5732.A buffet table, Japanese box art, stormy, escalator light.Work 5563.A patent drawing for something impossible, ink on vellum, 1904.Work 5353.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 5228.A matte ill-tempered neon sign with one letter out, tilt shift, reflections.Work 5204.A still cowslip on a sofa under plastic covers, tavern signboard, solargraph, green phosphor glow.Work 4981.An army surplus street food cart in the small hours, sake label, photo finish camera.Work 4977.A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper.Work 4922.A gumiho in lederhosen on a package holiday, a song from the car radio, Chinese handscroll, mainframe panel lights.Work 4858.An antique raku temple bell, Kittelsen troll painting, nothing to see here, bedsheet backdrop.Work 4768.A three-legged war medal on a ribbon in the snow in Kyoto, Ming bird and flower painting, standard lamp, emulsion peeling.Work 4767.Irma Stern portrait of a gravestone in the Bronze Age, sun through honey.Work 4760.A waist-high telegraph pole in a pyramid, Tang tomb mural, developer streaks, low ink streaks.Work 4754.A ming dynasty postage stamp with a misprint waiting outside a pub, Kandinsky composition, macroblocking.Work 4692.A leaning sagging sampan, pager screen, the one you lost at the fair, miner's lamp.Work 4680.A diplomat signing a treaty talking in its sleep at the end of an era, a colour between two others, early colour television, shot from inside an oven.Work 4627.A horsetail made of galleon, nearly extinct, Chinese firecracker label, iris out.Work 4576.A patent drawing for something impossible, ink on vellum, 1904.Work 4464.Mahmoud Said canvas of a Geissler tube in a workhouse, bus shelter advert glow.Work 4400.For best: a beetle as a knight in a planning office, holy picture.Work 4193.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 4136.