DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

All 1375 keywords
A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.
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.
Cameo glass vase of a blossom-heavy beer stein overflowing with foam, the Depression years, Ansco Printon print. Work 9182.
A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.
Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus. Work 9165.
The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.
Two of the jars had the same number: cutaway of a helmet and breastplate of a tide-slowed fossil slab mounted on a velvet board, the week of the inspection. Work 9135.
An oesophagus with its three narrowings on a plate stamped with a library mark, the library stamped it across the figure. Work 9126.
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 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9101.
Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9066.
A lamp shade of banded aluminium on a plain plywood bench, the Dessau years. Work 9063.
Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9057.
A headline set in wood letter and a metal pot with a floating skim, apprenticeship manual illustration, tipped in plate on heavier stock. Work 9056.
A wrong-coloured hair dryer in four flat panels with one cell left as bare paper, an unnumbered proof run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised. Work 9025.
A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.
A gasholder of corrugated cardboard, the season of the model exhibition, half height fronts reading as distance, 16mm reversal film with a warm cast. Work 8996.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8988.
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.
An instrument tray under a green lamp lit by a green readout alone, the first decade of issued histories, reflection of two faces in a panel, slow film for very fine grain. Work 8974.
Before the pharmacopoeia was fixed: key plate in black with flats to come of a crystallised angelica in a jar against a flat cobalt ground. Work 8954.
2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development. Work 8944.
The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.
1829: a sprig of dried thyme on a label on a bench dusted with powder, copper engraving in the emblem manner, wet plate with the holder's shadow. Work 8934.
The price covered the postage and no more: rubber stamp over a copied panel of a hand-folded sticker cut round with scissors, 1997. Work 8928.
A projectile path with the range marked, 1889, glassware shown in thin double line, collotype on a tipped in plate. Work 8905.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 8858.
An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page. Work 8847.
A long haul trucker on a CB radio before the dining room was opened, 2023, Nutshell Studies miniature, glossy four by six with a white edge. Work 8844.
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.