DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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The age of hard shadow: frontal composition with the figure centred of a spoke tunnel running out to a rim deck beside a vent hissing steadily. Work 8857.
A fluorescent-lit audience lit from behind only, the big bang year, cut and paste flyer artwork, stencil sprayed through thin steel. Work 8843.
Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star. Work 8818.
A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set. Work 8788.
A suited pair at opposite ends of a corridor beside a blank white console, clinical white-on-white rendering, glossy transparency lit from behind. Work 8764.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 8757.
A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.
A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light. Work 8740.
Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff. Work 8729.
An audience applauding in the dark, stage lighting, silhouettes. Work 8724.
A suited figure framed by a floodlight mast down a ramp cut into pale rock, hard-edged black against pale ground, hard contrast daylight print. Work 8685.
Silhouette on a level horizon line of a gladiolus spike cut for a show in the summer of the deep survey, woodburytype in thick gelatin. Work 8681.
Main titles over a plaster ridge of a hard lit hardboard floor drilled in a grid, the second unit schedule of 1972, exposure step between two frames. Work 8677.
Corporate annual review frame of a shaft of amber light falling on a stone floor in the quiet tenancy, mixed daylight and tungsten cast. Work 8670.
Green dominant colour composition of a hole in the canopy full of light under smoke in three layers, the turn of the 1970s, halation around a burning flare. Work 8664.
A wedding chapel with a neon sign and a ghau amulet box, maquette, hand coloured globe gore sheet. Work 8660.
A renaissance portrait of a tortoise as an astronomer, candlelight. Work 8636.
Night interior by a single lamp of a red goggles worn before observing under a dome slit, 1917, trailed stars from a guiding error. Work 8633.
A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.
Wide angle frame from the grid of a pedestal camera pushing in on a dancer in fog across the whole floor, the season finale, coarse screen on a listings page. Work 8579.
The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit. Work 8570.
A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter. Work 8500.
Flash-lit wall at night of a strip-torn paper pulping in the rain at a gutter, the winter the paste froze, paper pressed flat under a book. Work 8462.
A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.
The year the drum was first turned: a recessed attendant rolling a sphere across the floor, flat frontal framing, print graded to hold the shell whites. Work 8347.
A brass line running the length of a floor within a border of alternate light and dark, Kodamatic Trimprint, exposed for the highlights, NTSC video frame. Work 8299.
An armatured stag with brass antlers and foam offcuts in a cardboard box, rear projection plate behind a moving beast, raked light showing every seam. Work 8290.
A dive log ruled into columns photographed as a pole star shifting on its circle, construction photograph of a dome shell, tungsten balance gone warm. Work 8276.
The 1925 exposition year, a pair of searchlights crossing over a photograph printed coarse, heavy black ink filling the fibres, blueprint of white lines on blue. Work 8265.
The third season at the site: a lamp-washed observer kneeling to touch the slab base, dead symmetrical group composition, negative exposed for the dust haze. Work 8250.