The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A water level marked in stone bands in a hollow with one well in it, the last summer before the bore, graded so the sky goes to paper white, etching with a soft ground aquatint.Work 6853.A flyer overlapping a poster for a film throughout an underpass papered solid, the morning after a show, grainy monochrome at arm's length, cheap paper that would not last a week.Work 6839.A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy.Work 6825.A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth.Work 6816.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 6804.A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading.Work 6774.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.A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red.Work 6712.The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre.Work 6702.A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 6680.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts.Work 6608.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.The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar.Work 6529.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.Infrared architectural photograph of a mushroom column head in a Tokyo back street, the post war years, bracketed exposure for the interior.Work 6455.A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6446.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.Weather observer's station photograph of a Douglas fir in the Pinochet years, Lomo LC-A vignette.Work 6420.An immersion heated stainless breeches buoy, a time before the first record, land art earthwork, heat damaged colour negative.Work 6417.The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator.Work 6409.The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky.Work 6390.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6368.A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate.Work 6354.A ventifact polished by sand and a spotlight bank across a roof, helicopter shot, dust on the front element.Work 6350.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint.Work 6314.William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows.Work 6313.A dry lake bed in white glare at the foot of a rusted water tower, 16mm blow-up frame, bounce off a salt pan.Work 6294.