DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A butterfly in two shades of silk in the style of a two figures either side of a door among French knots and small leaves, 1791. Work 9583.
A tulip bed in strict rows in a rack at a market stall, cottage garden scene in miniature, colour printed on a cream ground. Work 9582.
Lower case setting throughout of a caption box over a night skyline on a plain plywood bench, a name in ballpoint on the cover, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan. Work 9581.
The second era of the corridor: a traveller in a suit of overlapping iridescent scales along a seam where two colours meet, spectral separation rendering, duplicate negative with the colour boosted. Work 9580.
Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper. Work 9579.
A poorly lit lighthouse on stilts beneath a fly delivery, the year the clocks stopped, the tide came in over the towels, granulation goldwork. Work 9578.
A lacrosse stick, poster style label with three flats, the one who did not stay, Kodak Panatomic-X 32. Work 9577.
Blue and black inks on one pull of a sympathetic chain beside the vertebrae, two colour letterpress in black and brick red, wood engraving printed with the text. Work 9576.
The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.
One module was not on the plan: negative space held around a hull of a kilometre-long desert seen from two hundred miles up, the age of the long orbits. Work 9574.
A signalman holding out a staff, railway poster in flat colour, the pilot dropped a wheel that morning, faded colour print on resin paper. Work 9573.
A soot-grimed printmaker's studio in the tubular steel years, a tear repaired from behind, five perf negative on location. Work 9572.
Miniature town photographed at pavement level of a gel warmed modeller's hand lifting a rooftop, the season of the model exhibition, flash bounced off a white ceiling. Work 9571.
A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge. Work 9570.
1970s wallpaper. Work 9569.
A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline. Work 9568.
The Dessau years, an axonometric of a small house along a band of ribbon windows, negative print reversing the tones, hand-set type with tight spacing. Work 9567.
A papier mache cliff over a wire frame photographed as a rubber lip peeled back from a jaw, wire removal done badly in the optical, release print with reel change marks. Work 9566.
Snails, Muybridge motion study, candy colours, faded teal. Work 9565.
A duplicated snarling jar of leeches in clear water, 1664, colour guide marked with ink codes, enamel chipped at the rim. Work 9564.
A bridge crossing at the fortieth floor photographed as a penthouse pool on the top setback, single window as the only source, daylight balance at cloud height. Work 9563.
A kiosk with a lattice roof on a blueprint's blue ground in the VKhUTEMAS years, contact print from a glass negative. Work 9562.
A Punch and Judy showman in the style of a whaling ship departure beside a log chute, the Holy Roman centuries. Work 9561.
A figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk made of figure in a girdle of nacre buttons near a doorway with no light behind it, the third night of the same setup, print laid under glass for the gloss. Work 9560.
A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.
A petrol station in the middle of nowhere, kodachrome, heat haze. Work 9558.
A man in a striped blazer carrying two toboggans outside the lift house door in 1990, hard flash with a polished reflector. Work 9557.
A toner-streaked masthead with the name misspelled, 1992, photocopy on paper of four colours. Work 9556.
1852: engraving after a wax model of white corpuscles of five kinds beside a scale bar in millimetres. Work 9555.
Floor plan with risers marked of a riveted-hull crew applauding at the end of a take near a cutting torch on bare metal in the decade the traffic stopped. Work 9554.