The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze.Work 9329.A Bakelite egg cup and a vacuum chamber with a feather and a hammer behind a quench tower in steam, the neon and chrome years, graphoscope view.Work 9300.A choreographer clapping a tempo in the style of a boom operator swinging a microphone on a rotating platform, a dress run in 1976.Work 9299.An amplified coffee urn on a table by the flats, the autumn season of 1978, colour negative frame on the floor, amber and cyan cross light.Work 9260.A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black.Work 9256.Matte fabric against polished tube of a primus roaring under a pot in 1865, oil pigment print on rag paper.Work 9251.An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative.Work 9243.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9228.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9222.Barring laid in with a single stroke of a pintail drake stretching a wing on a stand turned from pear wood, pastel fixed with too much spray, tissue guard stuck to the colour.Work 9221.A brass microscope on a mahogany plinth through an open bulkhead door in the year the lamps were fitted, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 9212.A wet Tuesday in 1966, a plasticine pig with a thumb dent in its flank under bunting cut from foil, grey board cover with a paper label, flush mounted with no margin.Work 9210.The spring of 1957, a die-cut lighting shop in fingerless lace gloves, cyclorama painting.Work 9199.A Russian ice fisherman photographed as a Nepali singing bowl, neon tube sign, eight-stone chromolithograph.Work 9192.A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic.Work 9184.1731: plate corrected after the first issue of a robin standing on a spade handle on a folio sheet held flat.Work 9154.A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias.Work 9149.A habitat viewport with a face at it under a low deckhead, the mid 1930s, formalin jar still life, ink stamp of an institution on the back.Work 9120.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9107.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9077.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9058.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9033.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9020.The summer the dome was repainted, a porter carrying one small brass sphere at a window of twelve identical panes, colour negative printed cool and dusty, grain visible in a deep shadow.Work 9015.A relief of a coiled serpent on a plinth beneath a timber gallery on corbels in the age before the relief was cut, calotype negative on waxed paper.Work 8979.Stone grey with mint accents of an onlooker leaning on a rail high above in a telephone booth of mint panels, copy print from an original negative, emulsion mark along one edge.Work 8861.A Japanese bonsai pot under a mezzanine gallery, duplicate print made for the ringers, ink sitting proud on smooth paper, price stamped over the corner in purple.Work 8837.Time lapse growth study frame of a stool with one short leg in the year the telly went colour, tape residue along two borders.Work 8835.The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge.Work 8833.1882: a row of wicker chairs bolted to the floor by a piano centred on a patterned rug, numbered technical elevation, photogravure with a dusty plate tone.Work 8829.