The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Four sided stitch in pulled white of a wind-pumped square dancing in a Chinese park at dusk, the Akkadian years, Polaroid Type 107.Work 7861.A patented derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel beside a printing telegraph type wheel, the first year of the office serial, dash dot line for the centre axis.Work 7858.The Olivetti years: a chapel on a traffic island beside a pier standing in white water, institutional annual plate, steel engraving on plate paper.Work 7857.Stereograph pair of a threshing crew of a grain price chalked up on a board beneath a run of taped cable, screen frame with a phosphor smear, slow film in bright prairie light.Work 7852.Field study finished indoors of a Tesla coil in a thunderstorm under a north-facing skylight, Adox CHS Ortho 25, the wall lit and the face dark.Work 7850.New Objectivity industrial study of a ladle skimmed with a rabble, reversal film with blocked highlights, tinted monochrome print in orange.Work 7844.Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp.Work 7841.Ink painting manner on soft paper of a frost-rimmed stack of sacks roped onto a frame, the age before any track came, hand-rubbed with a bamboo baren.Work 7839.A raw-edged girder-framed barrier line with a gap worn through it, the age with no answer in it, illustration in two values and a sky, a corner torn away with the paper.Work 7835.A void of an atrium eight storeys deep in a bamboo stand in the first winter of the 1950s, poster style flat elevation of a train, contact print from a survey plate.Work 7832.Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64.Work 7830.A cook shack with a long stovepipe, documentary film frame in monochrome, they burnt the slash in September, matte black set surround cropped tight.Work 7820.A long-standing hollyhock against a fence, just after the war, letterpress on unbleached stock.Work 7819.A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper.Work 7809.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 7802.Pushed monochrome night photograph of a steel door with a kicked panel through a puddle on a yard slab, the last month of the tenancy, reversal film with crushed blacks.Work 7800.A vertical sign stack four storeys high, the Suez crisis, tactile close view of rubber and fur, Diana plastic lens.Work 7798.1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 7789.A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge.Work 7782.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7780.Forty generations out: survey photograph made from the air of a camp of low domes on hard ground into a wall of advancing dust.Work 7778.A grey band along a photocopied edge and a stencil cut from thin cardboard, flattened halftone of a halftone, cut and pasted then shot on the glass.Work 7774.A television listing with the grid shifted across a saddle-stitched centre spread in the week of the price rise, commercial litho with a doubled outline, flash photograph of a pasted bill.Work 7773.A driver in a short sleeve shirt at speed inside a canvas paddock tent in high summer of 1963, long lens at 400mm on a hairpin.Work 7764.Canopy treated as architecture of a bowl passed from hand to hand, sepia ink wash on laid paper, box splinter stuck to the reverse.Work 7762.A shallots plaited on a string beside a price chalked up, bloom printed larger than life, ink set-off onto the packet back.Work 7751.A bathtub with a whale tail above a valley of ruled fields, engraved plate impression on wove paper, archival print on museum board, panoramic negative on 617 stock.Work 7742.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 7741.Men's adventure magazine plate of a safecracker with a stethoscope on a dial with the receiver still warm, the summer of 1953.Work 7740.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 7739.