The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Construction photograph of a dome shell of an orbital diagram painted on a panel, scan lines across a dome image, points of light slightly out of round.Work 6854.The console lamps lit the operator's face: dome maintenance record photograph of an oil-smelling worm gear on a polar axis, 1923.Work 6786.A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small.Work 6781.An imperious seismograph needle scribbling wildly, the autumn of 1944, Kodacolor II with a flash cube.Work 6752.The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers.Work 6709.A tower yard of packed earth and stone photographed as a wheeled ladder on a brass rail, inventory tableau on green baize, panoramic roll film on a rotating back.Work 6663.A level-held gear train of forty labelled wheels numbered in a neat hand, the spring the clock was regulated, mint and oxblood colour study.Work 6643.Steel engraving with a ruled sea tint of a pencil marked isotherms across a continent, 1839, sheet with an old library label at a corner.Work 6637.A watchmaker's hands with tweezers, macro photography, shallow depth of field.Work 6634.Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object.Work 6617.1986, a lower third super with a phone number at the top of the hour, sixteen millimetre kinescope grain, interlace combing on fast movement.Work 6577.A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount.Work 6569.A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel.Work 6568.The first week of October, a listed civic hall with a raised forum with a service tower alongside, Diane Arbus style photograph.Work 6549.Black and white documentation print of a plinth with nothing on it at a London institute of art, 1981, sequence shot on one roll.Work 6543.An air traffic control tower at an airport, the Civil Rights years.Work 6507.The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image.Work 6491.The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator.Work 6409.A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative.Work 6297.A rooftop sign in tubular neon made of proscenium arch with stepped mouldings under a frosted glass globe, the winter of 1933, neon burning out the highlights.Work 6248.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.Northern industrial documentary photograph of an ice halo under a stepped tower crown, 1882, Svema CO-32D reversal.Work 6195.Presentation rendering with figures of a reinstalled science museum hall with a Foucault pendulum on a pulp magazine cover in the late 1930s.Work 6173.Flashed glass roundel of an eel made of neon tubing on a boat train platform, 1942, polished black glass with a reflection.Work 6166.A neon-lit ballroom entrance on the pier, the summer of 1980, television variety show still, bare bulb flash head.Work 6139.1932: a hyperboloid cathedral of concrete ribs at a mullion joint, municipal record photograph, aerial oblique from a light aircraft.Work 6137.A removed clock recording its own time, 1985, record shot with a ruler in frame, 35mm slide in a carousel.Work 6092.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 neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.An apartment lobby with a terrazzo compass on the Bund at dusk, pencil and wash study, large format with a shift lens.Work 6057.