The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A clay octopus with eight thumbed arms above the set on a camera rostrum in one long afternoon in 1969, magenta shift in the shadows.Work 8415.Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock.Work 8407.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 8399.Wall panel print with cells butted up of a taped banana repeated across a yellow grid above a row printed in the wrong order in the year of the ten colourways.Work 8389.The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint.Work 8383.A rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window.Work 8358.A plate-decked whistle answered by nothing at all along a mesh walkway, the early 1990s, the chain was heavier than the lamp, structural detail illustration.Work 8356.An armillary sphere on a mahogany column photographed as an equatorial mount painted pale mint, museum inventory photograph, large format colour with a deep haze.Work 8352.The summer of 1953, an heiress slumming in a dive bar beside a burning oil barrel, reading crease across a figure, showthrough from the reverse page.Work 8349.The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey.Work 8346.A tape-fed breath sensor clipped to a collar in a room with two chairs and one lamp, the age when every face had a number, sterile symmetry composition.Work 8344.Tripod plate at a small aperture of a brush laid across a paste pot rim in the week of the inspection, photogravure plate in a portfolio.Work 8246.A man in a coral shirt at a grill on a deck made of woman in a hot pink swimsuit on a high stand in a marina of gleaming hulls, an age counted in fallen giants, cross processed frame with a cyan shift.Work 8245.A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth.Work 8235.A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux.Work 8211.The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour.Work 8195.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8183.Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8166.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8152.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros.Work 8151.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar.Work 8123.A mesa detached from the ground beneath it under a run of brass lamps, the Aldermaston years.Work 8108.An English muffin in the style of an aubergine between the sun and a treeline, the moulded plywood years.Work 8065.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros.Work 8060.A greenish pub menu with a green pint at the counter of a boot room, the last job before the works closed, the sheet slipped once and kept going, handbill art with hand-set type.Work 8049.Every copy was dubbed at high speed: photocopied insert at brutal contrast of an eight-up four track recorder with all lights on, the week the deck ate a tape.Work 8044.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8040.A sea cock with a red painted handle, Victorian scientific engraving colourised, the manifold wheels were all set open, magnesium flash inside a steel space.Work 8034.1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule.Work 8029.