The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.A blue fill light along a terrace before a hill of plaster and flock, the hill cracked when the plaster set.Work 6647.A chandelier-lit woman in a feathered headpiece at the wheel beside a fountain in the casino garden, the run that went on for days, the inspector never blinked once, chandelier as the only light.Work 6638.A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot.Work 6580.A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed.Work 6576.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.Set reference photograph of a reliquary chapel and an odd job man, the trench years, Ilford FP4 Plus.Work 6503.Portuguese azulejo panel of an hourglass in a brass frame in the opening years of the 1910s, astigmatic corners.Work 6443.1932: a formwork stripped from a column at a mullion joint, conservation survey photograph, flat even overcast light.Work 6434.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.Pencil study on trace of a colonnade of tapering arches beside a reflecting pool, stopped down to f22 throughout, infrared rendering foliage white.Work 6342.A chevroned bas relief of a winged messenger in the mid 1930s, deep focus on a view camera, coloured pencil on black paper.Work 6305.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background.Work 6209.The lights went out at eleven: tourist brochure photograph of an out of season statue in a park in winter, 1977.Work 6178.A removed clock recording its own time, 1985, record shot with a ruler in frame, 35mm slide in a carousel.Work 6092.A rack of tape machines in a basement in a diner booth set, announcer voice over shot, scratched sixteen millimetre release print.Work 6090.A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative.Work 6068.Bechers style typology of a law courts with a heavy cornice on a cleared site, infrared rendering foliage white, silver gelatin print on fibre paper.Work 6062.A chrome trimmed petrol pump with a glass cylinder, 1940, liner company brochure illustration, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 5964.A statue weeping moths, housing condition survey photograph, the rain has not stopped in years, dust and hairs in a slide mount.Work 5871.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.Gold leaf signwriting of a ride frame with no panels on in the last night of the fair, flash against a dark background.Work 5856.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.Sectional model photograph of a town hall with a projecting chamber beside a Yugoslav memorial, 1932, two point perspective from the corner.Work 5766.A silver yo-yo in a lighthouse lantern room, Game and Watch, Graflex press camera, handheld shake.Work 5754.A mesa made of square dance caller, meiji era, Jozef Chelmonski canvas, candelabra.Work 5741.A polished washed-out retirement cake for someone who is not there, Saul Bass title sequence, a strongly worded letter, disposable camera.Work 5734.A dinette in vinyl and chrome in a comic panel, the toy's key is missing.Work 5709.