The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The era of balsa and enamel, a tea leaf soiled scalpel with a fresh blade with glue gone shiny along one joint, documentary look at a hobby table.Work 7981.A sphere resting on cracked ground in the style of a wall crossing a ridge without turning in the lee of an upright slab, the second era of the watchers.Work 7976.Direct on-camera flash in a small room of an exit sign glowing over a stair and a someone else's hand on the microphone, an August with no fan, film pushed in the tank by guesswork.Work 7972.A gorge of black water below a bridge and a figure alone on a mile of pale shore, symmetry accurate to a single frame, gelatin silver on matte paper.Work 7971.A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines.Work 7970.A cyclorama on a bench of white marble, the first spring of the 1960s.Work 7964.Aerial survey photograph from low level of a straw-flecked row of five elevators on an elevator row beside a grain elevator driveway in harvest of 1928.Work 7963.Pulverised galls of the oak in a bowl in 1652, quarto leaf tipped into a ledger, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400.Work 7957.A resolute wind slab cut into blocks at seventy degrees north, 1903, museum exhibition enlargement.Work 7955.A vapour-wreathed lift bank of eight numbered doors, a spring of long daylight, long lens at two hundred millimetres.Work 7954.Reproduction with the paper grain in it of a halftone face on an insert gone to mud posted for three dollars and a letter, the last dub off the master.Work 7953.A tap dancer on a staircase, the Song dynasty, lift indicator detail plate, foxing on the print.Work 7947.A doorway with a single bulb above it and an inspection gantry level with a parapet, official report frontispiece, offset litho in four muted inks.Work 7943.Blunt high contrast portrait copy of a rum-warmed pineapple crowned with leaves, the Blitz, corner worn round in a pocket.Work 7942.The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner.Work 7938.A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913.Work 7937.Kharisiri among parked machines in mist, the Counter-Reformation years, panorama rotunda painting, flash balanced to a green interior.Work 7935.Half past eleven on a school night: a cobbled last frame of a roll, darkroom print dodged nowhere at all, carte de visite studio portrait.Work 7928.A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it.Work 7919.A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture.Work 7917.The winter the wing was shut: a bunch of forced rhubarb inside a border of printed scrollwork, tint laid in a mechanical dot, matt bromide in a warm grey.Work 7915.The seventh transit: a flat-coloured face half magenta and half cyan, field of colour with one hard edge, wide gauge print with an open gate.Work 7912.A lookout posted at a tunnel mouth, the years of the six-level city, deep shadow with a lit doorway, ink line with grey wash.Work 7911.A trench with walls polished smooth, after the fourth attempt failed, three quarter view on an upright mass, edge softness left in the corners.Work 7904.A heaped with ice venturi tube with pressure tappings, 1874, collotype of a spectrum photograph, press agency print with a caption pasted on.Work 7891.Dark robes against pale limestone of a measure jar used for every share, medium format chrome in dust haze, gate weave during a long hold.Work 7888.A porch swing in a boiler suit dyed purple, the spring of 1971, vectorscope trace, fast panchromatic negative pushed hard.Work 7886.A leading marks for a harbour entrance beside a cartouche in the lower right, after the surface was left behind, photozincograph from an engraved original, large format negative in hard sun.Work 7885.1970s wallpaper.Work 7882.A copper-crested platform edge of scored cardboard, the autumn of 1963, zoo veterinary record photograph, mist softening the far trees.Work 7868.