The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time.Work 6561.Engineering diagram of a plot of scrub land bought as a work in a print shop, flat light on a moor, Tri-X in a gallery.Work 6528.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.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare.Work 6237.A telegram pasted to a sheet on a hillside in Wales, certificate in a plain frame, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6204.A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus.Work 6069.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 6032.Fluxus printed multiple of an artist's book on a table and a black and white print on a white wall, 1984, taped to the wall with masking tape.Work 6028.An eye reflected in glass in a bare white room, insert shot of an object, north light in a bare room.Work 5957.The spring of 1968: a congregation with their heads bowed on a deserted promenade, Agfacolor frame, fog softening the background.Work 5946.Typed sheet on headed paper of a neon sentence on a wall, vertical aerial frame, Polaroid taken as a record.Work 5938.Photostat of a documentation photograph in a frame, bare bulb in a basement, photostat contrast.Work 5886.Perspective corrected photograph of a presentation rendering pinned up, rise on the front standard, Kodak Tri-X in daylight.Work 5872.A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X.Work 5842.A sentence painted on a gallery wall on a typewriter platen, low sun raking a surface, photocopier toner, carbon copy on flimsy paper.Work 5821.The black and white television years: a neatly combed test pattern before sign on, municipal guidebook photograph, low northern sun.Work 5817.Film poster in one colour of a stone jetty in flat light, Kodak Double-X negative, cue mark in the corner.Work 5815.A stamped date on a blank page on a Scottish moor, 1968, certificate in a plain frame, contact printed at full size.Work 5763.A mesa made of square dance caller, meiji era, Jozef Chelmonski canvas, candelabra.Work 5741.Route marked on a map of an unexplained stone stairs down to water in a Turin gallery in the spring of 1968.Work 5639.A half-deflated curtain pulled behind a sliding door, the bicentennial summer, faded holiday snapshot, heavy over-exposure.Work 5612.A parcel containing a storm in the style of a receipt for the ocean, tintype sheen.Work 5554.A jade plant in judicial robes on a cattle station, made in a country that is gone, Watts Towers mosaic, overlapping frames.Work 5425.An acorn splitting open, Monet series painting, funereal, candlelight.Work 5421.A jumble-sale diploma in a frame made of wet sand, dress pattern catalogue, extension tubes.Work 5356.A boardroom non-stick ziggurat, Puvis de Chavannes mural, the man who counted waves, ASCII shading.Work 5273.Vintage paper quilling, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5244.A tintype photographer pouring collodion and a receipt as long as a scarf in the land of the dead, Gauguin Tahiti painting.Work 5153.