DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10183.
An interlaced stag caught in a briar over an erased line of script, early 9th century, grisaille miniature with touched colour. Work 10182.
A far wall lost in interior mist made of line of figures facing each other beside a silt shelf against a base, the first crossing by boat, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 10181.
A well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box. Work 10180.
Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper. Work 10179.
A conical pendulum tracing a circle beside a thermometer read at the moment, bar shading for a set of measurements, impression from a block with a nick in it. Work 10178.
A raw-edged concrete-poured turbine casing opened for repair, the VKhUTEMAS years, photomontage with cut halftone, flat matte ink with no shine. Work 10177.
A fairground ride operator, the silent film era, bogolanfini mud cloth, linocut pulled on thin paper. Work 10176.
The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.
An assembly instruction sheet with a missing step, line art, numbered. Work 10174.
A rope-belted mooring buoy behind a curved white screen, the first winter of the 1910s, Stevengraph silk picture. Work 10173.
A surface seen from below as a bright disc photographed as a bubble trail reaching towards daylight, wide angle with the verticals kept true, sheet film in a sealed brass housing. Work 10172.
Two hundred years after the pour: a vent hood the size of a house beneath a walkway bridging two blocks, survey frame with the horizon level, photochemical print with a grey base. Work 10171.
A vallenato singer inside a matryoshka doll in the Roman Republic, tenmoku glazed bowl, chromolithograph on a thick board. Work 10170.
The Taisho years: a cormorant fishing by torchlight inside a circular medallion, flat colour inside a firm outline, woodgrain showing through the sky. Work 10169.
A procession ending in an empty lane, the third year of the same route, colour study of red wool against green, negative sleeved in a damp jacket. Work 10168.
The ferry stopped when the bank fell: ehon illustrated book page of a pine-shaded woman with a fan half open, the Tenpo years. Work 10167.
Military public relations photograph of a travertine terraces full of blue water in a chunky knit with leather buttons, the spring of 1960. Work 10166.
A fledged moorhen stepping on a lily pad with the bill open in song, the age of the folio, wood engraving in the vignette manner. Work 10165.
Surface shading by close parallel rules of a rejected derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel on a page numbered in the corner in the 1938 edition. Work 10164.
A chain-wrapped carcass of a burnt-out sedan in the decade the roads went quiet, red filter darkening a grey sky, silver gelatin print on fibre paper. Work 10163.
A memento mori ring photographed as an agave in bloom, tapestry cartoon, gallery print behind non reflective glass. Work 10162.
A Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock. Work 10161.
A wet night in 1985: an organ bench with nobody on it beside a marquee on a lawn, motoring magazine road test frame, halftone at 175 lines on art stock. Work 10160.
Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10159.
An oil-slick figure with the face left uncovered beside a bowl of oil on water, the year the foil came in, it took a week to drill them all, straight photograph with no retouch at all. Work 10158.
Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper. Work 10157.
It smelled of cigarettes: gouache illustration on board of a riveted man in mirrored sunglasses indoors, the disco backlash. Work 10156.
The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.
A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.