The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A rooftop sign in tubular neon made of proscenium arch with stepped mouldings under a frosted glass globe, the winter of 1933, neon burning out the highlights.Work 6248.Announcement poster in one colour of a blank reel to reel machine on a table, 1968, deliberately uncorrected.Work 6190.A deck accessed dodgem with the pole sparking at the Newcastle Hoppings, the year before demolition, documentary photograph.Work 6154.A grainy enlargement with a circle added in a roadside museum, the summer of 1967, polaroid taken as proof, long lens at the limit.Work 6143.A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968.Work 6076.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.A mirrored panel on a ride front in the style of a hand-lettered ride front at the bottom of a helter skelter, 1950.Work 6010.A departure lounge with one seat taken, wide angle, cold light.Work 5970.A hot sauce collection in the style of a sea anemone catching a shrimp beside a refinery on the horizon, the spring of 1969.Work 5948.Typed sheet on headed paper of a neon sentence on a wall, vertical aerial frame, Polaroid taken as a record.Work 5938.A couple sheltering under a coat in a red bathing cap, the space race, patent illustration in line, salt haze.Work 5935.The reel changes here: Gevacolor frame of a flower decked staircase seen from below, the Concorde years.Work 5927.A botanical plate of an invented flower, hand coloured engraving, 1840.Work 5905.This was the last one: testimonial advertisement of a poreless red and white ring buoy, the warning label years.Work 5901.1964: railway carriage print of a stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a stack of deck chairs.Work 5891.Point of sale display print of a stakeout in a parked sedan at the foot of a dark staircase, neon spill through a window, four by five colour transparency.Work 5882.Transit poster for a bus interior of a king size cork tipping paper on a king size, the Madison Avenue years, ink trapping on a heavy solid.Work 5875.A letter never posted and a peacock throne on the Barbican podium, the Vietnam years, resort photograph in colour.Work 5841.35mm colour transparency of a bougainvillea over a breeze block wall on a strip of dead lawn, Kodachrome II, slight barrel distortion.Work 5812.Dye transfer advertising print of a hand lettered shaker beaded with condensation, the mid 1960s, four colour halftone rosette.Work 5792.The spring of 1979, a crimson woman kicking off a shoe with glitter on the shoulders, silkscreen poster.Work 5788.The early 1980s, a 99 flake in a cone at Brighton, dust in the gate, Agfachrome 40.Work 5768.A movie poster for a film about a flood, painted illustration, rising water.Work 5744.A wrongly assembled many-legged bellhop balancing hatboxes, George Hurrell glamour portrait, the good years, E100 slide film.Work 5720.A neon riderless rubber stamp that says approved in red, straw marquetry, an hour nobody uses, atmospheric.Work 5703.A mahogany commandeered herald with a long trumpet, monster truck rally poster, as a child would explain it, sleeper cabin lamp.Work 5668.Romanesque wall painting of a train stuck in snow in a Tanzanian spice market, pipe glow.Work 5657.An Easter jacobean traveller tied down by tiny people, Hindeloopen painted furniture, an anthem with no words, lens from a projector.Work 5634.Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas.Work 5617.A helter skelter above the beach made of wyrd loom at Baia degli Angeli, Christmas 1958, daylight balanced under tungsten.Work 5603.