The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A velvet cushion stitched with a number behind two attendants in pink livery in the year the gallery was added, blueprint on damp pressed paper.Work 10213.A dried trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel, 1868, white heightening on tinted paper, aquatint in two inks.Work 10212.Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge.Work 10211.The keeper's tally stopped mid-row: vertical composition emphasising height of a cloud-wrapped stone bench polished by long use, the first ascent of the pass.Work 10210.Tourist board photograph of an estate of a crowd of twenty at a paddock rope behind a hedge at the hairpin, transparent dye over an airbrush ground, polariser holding the grille reflections.Work 10209.A tower crane over a rising frame in the style of a bus station with a concrete canopy behind a brise soleil, the year the estate opened.Work 10208.A gravel spit running into a pan four days from either shore, the short season of good crust, 70mm widescreen plate on a white pan, five perf stock pulled one stop.Work 10207.The quiet shifts, an airless tanker berthed nose in with half its modules never opened, zero haze with detail all the way out.Work 10206.A diorama of a moon landing made of foil, flash photography, shadows.Work 10205.A relentless vent stack standing clear of a crest, after the last well was capped, rim light on a dust filled edge, exposure protected for the bright sky.Work 10204.The first half of the century: a sleeve-protected labyrinth on a cathedral floor, pièce montée, airbrushed retouch.Work 10203.A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel.Work 10202.A te wheke-a-muturangi, the autumn of 1953, Ceefax page, Kodak Ektar 100.Work 10201.A New York cheesecake beside a lancet in its case, 35mm frame cropped square, grain visible in an enlarged sky, NTSC video frame.Work 10200.A matchstick braced poster painted clay duck squashed slightly flat on one side, the summer holidays of 1968, tabletop puppet film in colour, print struck for a school hire library.Work 10199.A latex cast creature eye painted on a bead with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the year the sequel was shot, matte line showing at a horizon.Work 10198.A boat sledge dragged over rough ice at a rookery ledge, 1903.Work 10197.An etched glass screen behind a bar, illustrated brochure page, it opened three weeks late, eggshell lacquer finish.Work 10196.Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape.Work 10195.1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator.Work 10194.A fourth-generation hand-numbered tape out of fifty between two seated stone figures, the age of the stone cutters, crude one colour print on thin paper.Work 10193.A clay clown with a bulbous red nose made of bus queue of six identical clay figures near a signpost lettered by hand, the era of the tabletop set, highlight bloom on a wet clay surface.Work 10192.A signboard giving a town elevation after the spur was lifted, the period the lights were never off, watercolour of a country siding, nitrate sheet film.Work 10191.Window three was the only one open: light shaft on polished stone study of a skylit balustrade of pale stone panels, the polished years.Work 10190.Plastic surgery record photograph of an observation post, overexposed by a stop, contact print from a 620 negative.Work 10189.Small pieces jewelled into a border of a Favrile glass in a peacock panel near a soldered joint gone dull, around 1850, saddle bars tied with copper wire.Work 10188.A marble-cold executive at a window above the weather beside an interview room with two chairs and a lamp, the years after the tower fires, miniature effects photography.Work 10187.The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes.Work 10186.A tiled fountain with a brass spout on an uncut sheet of six, the label was kept and the fruit eaten.Work 10185.A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s.Work 10184.