The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame.Work 6575.A future built over an older one: video still from a security feed of a radio set with a lit dial in an alley two metres wide.Work 6525.An air traffic control tower at an airport, the Civil Rights years.Work 6507.An antenna topped transistor radio in two tone plastic in the year Sputnik went up, dust and scratches on the scan, deep depth of field throughout.Work 6486.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.The years the maps stopped matching: a bullet-pocked scavenger in a gas mask, tracking shot still, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6466.Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear.Work 6412.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.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.A finned rocket on a launch gantry wired to a control panel, the early 1940s, municipal record photograph, Panatomic-X fine grain.Work 6353.Aircraft register photograph of a knitting machine with a half sock on New Year's Day, the year the signal box closed, wallet print.Work 6343.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.An oven fresh two inch tape reel on a spindle, 1949, daytime serial break frame, white dropout flecks in a dark area.Work 6273.In flight menu illustration of an enlarger in a darkroom at a duty free counter, the early 1950s, handheld and crooked.Work 6229.The black and white television years: a nationally advertised videotape machine with its reels turning, Rank Cintel telecine frame, flat three point lighting on a small set.Work 6203.A cornered press photographer with a flash gun, 1956, extreme low camera angle.Work 6180.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.An enlarged tape recorder on a kitchen table, 1995, stereo pair comparison plate, blown up past the grain.Work 6153.A radio set in a stepped walnut case at the foot of a chrome stair in the depression years, airbrush illustration on board, vignetted corners.Work 6147.Matte painting for a film of a turquoise and chrome reel to reel computer cabinet inside a flying saucer in 1941.Work 6134.Oscilloscope trace of an alchemist's laboratory full of smoke in New Year 1977, a thumb over the corner of the lens.Work 6117.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.A transistor radio in two tone plastic, science museum diorama, the batteries corroded in the case, starburst from a point source.Work 6098.Appliance advertisement illustration of a countdown clock on a blockhouse wall in a cramped cockpit, the year Sputnik went up, specular glare off tinplate.Work 6088.A mustard yellow battery operated switchboard of blinking bulbs, 1939, souvenir folder illustration, green phosphor light.Work 6079.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.The rain has not let up all night: airline calendar illustration of a first class switchboard operator in a headset, the 1950s.Work 6061.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 jukebox in an empty bar facing away, 1975, production still from a long take, long take with no cut.Work 6035.Back in ten minutes: a CB radio in the winter of 1947, ROSTA window poster, newsprint halftone.Work 6016.