The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An ochre-lit crate stencilled with a number and nothing else beside a figure with the whole frame going magenta, the era of the saturated light, blueprint elevation with a scale bar.Work 6915.A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure.Work 6906.A smudge-smoked wave tank with a ripple pattern, the year before the electron was named, blue holding while the yellow went.Work 6875.A woman in a sun visor on a pit lane bench at the exit of the hairpin in the gold livery years, Fujichrome 100D transparency.Work 6837.Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print.Work 6821.The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish.Work 6797.A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil.Work 6794.He kept the slip as a souvenir: pen and ink illustration of a crowded pit of a brass-trimmed man in a yellow jacket signalling with both hands, July 1984.Work 6788.A nerveless French angelfish with the type running upward, the week the deck ate a tape, etching with a fine needle.Work 6782.A spathe of a lords-and-ladies beside a genus name struck through, 1847.Work 6746.A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked.Work 6728.Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour.Work 6662.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.A double exposed California poppy, the Expo 67 summer, an incident meter reading.Work 6583.Scale model publicity photograph of a gold vein running through quartz, Kentmere 100, split grade print.Work 6526.An antenna topped transistor radio in two tone plastic in the year Sputnik went up, dust and scratches on the scan, deep depth of field throughout.Work 6486.A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples.Work 6395.A window streamer taped inside the glass on a forest service road, 1976.Work 6334.An oil-streaked speedometer cracked in its housing, the end of the age of engines, veiling flare across the frame.Work 6323.Filipino jeepney art panel of a self important slider phone in a flooded basement in 2029.Work 6272.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.Freeze frame from a broadcast of a centre pivot irrigator crossing a field on a river bank in July, the year the service station opened, yellowed print from poor washing.Work 6141.A mustard yellow starburst patterned toy shop window of tin robots, 1947, diorama with a painted backdrop, silver gelatin print.Work 6114.The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer.Work 6106.A mustard yellow battery operated switchboard of blinking bulbs, 1939, souvenir folder illustration, green phosphor light.Work 6079.A zigzagged lobby directory in gilt letters at a petrol station of white tile, 1936, Art Deco poster in flat colour.Work 6031.An Artek pioneer camp on the shore in a poster hoarding, theatrical footlights from below, flat spot colour lithography, Fujichrome R25N Single-8.Work 5977.A hot toddy made of gravitational wave observatory in a garden gone to seed, the tower block years, north facing window light.Work 5952.A service door with a stepped surround and a neon script over a hotel eyebrow, lacquer panel painting, Kodachrome transparency.Work 5934.A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade.Work 5854.