The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A troll market on a rooftop of antennas in the Taisho democracy years, a microfilm reader screen.Work 6264.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.The year Sputnik went up, a planetarium dome at showtime inside a domed city, lit from below like a stage, overexposed sky behind a fin.Work 6252.A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt.Work 6238.The road ends here: a windsock on a bent mast in the last decade before the collapse, exploded view diagram, long exposure over a night pan.Work 6224.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.A rocket with a checkerboard tail made of flying saucer on landing legs at a periscope, the late 1930s, Technicolor three strip.Work 6183.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.Pen and ink illustration of a lettering painted on frosted glass under a street lamp in the fog, eight to one lighting ratio, haze in a hard backlight.Work 6104.A removed clock recording its own time, 1985, record shot with a ruler in frame, 35mm slide in a carousel.Work 6092.A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.The late 1940s, a starburst patterned formwork stripped from a column under a folded plate roof, concrete texture study.Work 6022.A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust.Work 5995.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 stripped-down welded signpost with no sign left, the second generation after the fall, panoramic photograph, warm highlights and cool shadows.Work 5944.Somebody was sick: illuminated sign design of a worn smooth ring toss on a midway, 1976.Work 5933.Flat spot colour printing of a robot handing over a ray gun and a starburst sign over a car wash, 1939, cathode ray glow on a face.Work 5917.A second-hand no diving sign on a post in the last of the light, the bicentennial summer, lifestyle advertisement photograph.Work 5910.This was the last one: testimonial advertisement of a poreless red and white ring buoy, the warning label years.Work 5901.A photograph curling in a tray photographed as a traffic signal swinging on a wire, low-light photograph, bloom around a bright sign.Work 5893.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.A chevroned cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a microphone on a chromed stand, the winter of 1933, enamel sign painting.Work 5816.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.A finned rocket on a launch gantry in the style of a bold neon letters on a pylon sign on a cereal box premium, 1935.Work 5789.A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop.Work 5746.A movie poster for a film about a flood, painted illustration, rising water.Work 5744.A cable stay fanning from a pylon beside a mosaic gable, 1976, coloured pencil rendering on tracing, blue hour with the lights coming on.Work 5684.A grease pencil crop marks on an overlay on a commuter platform at dusk, chromalin proof, key light with a silver fill.Work 5683.