DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Soft canvas against polished copper of a circle of lamp light on the sea floor, 6x7 colour transparency, daylight only at four fathoms. Work 7235.
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 diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 7157.
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.
1887: a valet sprinting past a row of headlamps against a wall of smoked glass, candid arrival frame with flash, whiteprint with sepia lines on cream. Work 7022.
A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving. Work 7021.
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 number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black. Work 7011.
Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent. Work 6934.
A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 6791.
A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small. Work 6781.
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.
A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate. Work 6706.
A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic. Work 6680.
The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light. Work 6657.
The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph. Work 6611.
A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel. Work 6568.
A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog. Work 6567.
The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar. Work 6529.
A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night. Work 6429.
A Hatzegopteryx, Christmas 1945, safety film still, copper toned print. Work 6407.
An Ocean City floating ring with rain staining down the piers, 1951, sectional model photograph, neutral density for a long exposure. Work 6367.
The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar. Work 6320.
The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light. Work 6301.
A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative. Work 6297.
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.
A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting. Work 6172.
Flashed glass roundel of an eel made of neon tubing on a boat train platform, 1942, polished black glass with a reflection. Work 6166.
A mink collared bathroom mirror in a nightclub beside a mirrored ceiling over a floor, the last year of the 1970s, point of sale display print. Work 6155.