DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A light-barred cut path with towers at the end beside a cicada noise in a stone corridor, a day the stone stayed cool, high angle over a complex. Work 9535.
Single figure dwarfed by machinery of a semaphore signal atop a roof of turning ventilators, Christmas 1968, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9534.
1928, an oil-smelling cooling fan behind a projector base under a dome of perforated panels, archival copy of a show still. Work 9530.
The padlock was newer than the cover: production illustration in dust tones of a beam-lifted vault of brick above still water, the season every herd came at once. Work 9526.
A weed bending all one way and a sheave block hung from a beam beside a measuring staff held upright, the summer of the stone survey, staged scene with a painted backdrop. Work 9523.
Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin. Work 9516.
Works photographer's plate of a tongs crane over soaking pits with the stack gone cold, 1912. Work 9499.
The plywood kiosk warped in a month: three-ink poster in red black and grey of a cog-toothed constructed stage set of ramps, the last constructivist years. Work 9496.
A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples. Work 9495.
The late 1990s: a paste-dribbled culvert of brick under a track, sharp foreground paper and black behind, lithographic leaflet in three inks. Work 9493.
A nurse in a Pacific field hospital on a rain-black street in the fourth printing, impasto highlights over a thin wash, staple rust marks on a digest. Work 9492.
Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9487.
A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle. Work 9486.
A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 9482.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9480.
Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate. Work 9468.
A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot. Work 9452.
A scaffolding grid over a facade at the foot of a chimney stack, the first years of photomontage. Work 9451.
1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9449.
A weather-greyed oil-soaked planking grain ticket book on a counter, the dust years, pen and ink illustration of a grain town, red filter darkening the sky to black. Work 9446.
A file of walkers with cymbals held flat within a temple of carved plaster, the rubber split on frame four hundred. Work 9437.
A bristling Japanese maple beside a four door saloon, the grunge years, cold blue shadow against orange lamp. Work 9434.
Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9431.
Corridor lamp every twenty paces at a numbered hatch in a plinth in the second programme, still frame from a slow tracking shot, cross processed to a teal shadow. Work 9429.
Deep focus lobby with one small figure of a funicular carriage at a lower station, grain in the shadow under a stair, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9424.
Worm's eye view up a sheer face of a sunken plaza and an alien fungus city, the late 1900s, optical dupe with hazed corners. Work 9420.
Overprinted colour out of register of an escalator ribbon inside a glass flank at the end of a very long table, the decade of the vertical franchise, top light with deep floor shadow. Work 9419.
The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle. Work 9415.
Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened. Work 9413.
The smoke would not leave the gallery: a bathing tank cut from one stone in the years the towers stood empty, film still from a temple sequence, lens misted by standing humidity. Work 9411.