The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall.Work 7473.A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred.Work 7464.Model photographed in raking light of a spiral stair in a workshop wing in 1835, slow fine grain film on a tripod.Work 7399.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 ripple-floored figure holding a black square of glass within a trench cut dead straight, the first survey season, the stone face was left where it lay, unblinking exterior composition.Work 7319.The Three Kingdoms period, a caving beside a magenta warning lamp, contact print of a whole roll, fifty copies dubbed over one weekend.Work 7281.A tumbling hangar deck with a ship inside, the age of hard shadow, scan with the negative edge included.Work 7238.A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow.Work 7201.The season finale, an export-stamped rehearsal run with the house lights up with the gum still shining, opening titles in chrome lettering.Work 7193.A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp.Work 7107.A directional arrow on a wall inside a darkroom's red light, the last Berlin year.Work 7073.The years the towers stood empty: a canopy pressing against a stone wall among fallen blocks, haze separated tower planes, neutral density in a hot courtyard.Work 7032.A canvas-walled hole in the floe rimmed with slush behind a snow block wall, the winter of 1915, glass plate exposure in the cold.Work 7026.A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom.Work 7019.A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore.Work 7014.A tunnel mouth of painted plaster with a pin through its base, the week before the club show, lithograph in three stone greys, tungsten balanced colour film.Work 6833.A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan.Work 6795.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 6791.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.An implacable settlement terraced into a canyon wall, the age of the deep shelters, infrared plate with a black sky.Work 6696.Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall.Work 6601.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page.Work 6546.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.A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 6490.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.