The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print.Work 7065.A rocket nosecone in a scrapyard and a pelota court, botanical type specimen photograph, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod.Work 6971.A smudge-smoked wave tank with a ripple pattern, the year before the electron was named, blue holding while the yellow went.Work 6875.A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth.Work 6816.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.A gas-tested signal bell wire down the shaft at the coal face on a wet morning, the year of the lockout, the pony never came up again, technical manual illustration.Work 6758.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a test weight kettle on a stand in 1916, colour slide from a farm album, dust on the negative in the enlarger.Work 6646.A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount.Work 6569.A cooling tower in reinforced concrete above a river valley, charcoal study of a mass, Portra 160 negative.Work 6521.A chromed atomic power plant with a cooling stack, the late 1930s, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6441.A silo cluster beside a rail siding photographed as a sanatorium with a curved balcony run, shift lens architectural study, Kodak Tri-X in daylight.Work 6430.The end of the age of engines, a dust-caked sentry on a water tower platform a day out from the refinery, aerial photograph.Work 6413.The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky.Work 6390.The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print.Work 6381.Nobody is coming: a rooftop water tank on stilts in a future that kept its old machines, production concept painting, bloom around a bright sign.Work 6338.A chain-wrapped storage tank streaked with rust, the third year without rain, Ektachrome transparency, blue horizontal streak flare.Work 6288.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic.Work 6049.A robot carrying a woman across a crater in a stable yard, the atomic age.Work 6026.Miniature set photograph of a salt crust cracked into plates and a rig with exhaust stacks either side, the last summer of the refineries, neutral density graduated filter.Work 6005.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion.Work 5877.A pipeline running across the pan at the edge of a dust storm, a century from now, editorial illustration, telephoto compression of a convoy.Work 5781.Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock.Work 5761.An unauthorised queue outside a building nobody enters seen through a fish tank, Russian niello, ball lightning.Work 5702.A last-orders lunar rover being measured, cyanotype, colour noise.Work 5699.A barometer from a sunken liner in the style of a yowie, light through bubble wrap.Work 5663.Sunburnt cinematic frame of a wrecking yard on a salt pan, desaturated with a warm cast, white glare off the salt.Work 5649.An articulated tanker on a salt flat at the base of a radio mast, the refinery still burns.Work 5618.Bernd and Hilla Becher typology of a giant african land snail on a desert island, through binoculars.Work 5607.