The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.Topping out ceremony photograph of a birch polypore behind a fallen giant across a beck, the year the telephone reached the village, glow of a rheostat lamp.Work 8141.An enamel number tag wired to an arm, measured elevation in ink and wash, the label was typed before the thing arrived, gravure plate in a portfolio.Work 8140.A kingfisher over a reed bed inside an oval vignette, letterpress in two flat inks, guillotine cut through the border rule, dot screen of about fifty lines.Work 8139.A lifting body coming in on a dust plume after a night of rain, the age when the wind won, frame built on one long diagonal, xerox with a dark band down one side.Work 8138.Charmingly stiff street scene of a glue gone shiny along a joint with a scale figure at the kerb, a spare bedroom in 1971.Work 8137.Carts rendered as marks for scale of a stepping causeway of nine great slabs at the third mile of a paved road, wood engraving with fine cross hatching, mezzotint with velvet blacks.Work 8136.He led every lap and said nothing: silhouette study of a wound headcloth of a brick-red field of scarecrows all turned the same way, the railway mania years.Work 8135.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 8134.Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments.Work 8133.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 8132.A malleus incus and stapes at scale made of bladder distended and in section on a tinted ground of pale buff, the year the atlas was reprinted, paper laid down on linen for teaching.Work 8131.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8130.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.Rows of figures moving in step under a single work lamp, halftone screen coarse enough to count, offset ghosting from the next sheet, contact print from a glass negative.Work 8128.Airline timetable cover illustration of a palm-fringed stewardess with a folded route map, the 1937 season, gouache on board photographed flat.Work 8127.An organ pipe cactus tethered to a mast in the mist, the Roaring Twenties, seed identification chart, 6x9 rollfilm transparency.Work 8126.A figure standing with both arms raised beside a pole with a lamp on it in the quiet end of a long night, archival positive with a hot sky.Work 8125.Postal view of a hotel front of a folded square stamp box of pale enamel against a facade of dusty pink stucco in the season before the survey.Work 8124.An evening class foliate nasturtium trailing over a path edge, the Pictish years, astronomical lantern slide, glaze pooled at the foot of the jar.Work 8123.A bootleg cord panel of numbered jacks under an ad screen three storeys tall, the era of the licensed face, the fountain had been dry for years, low angle from a polished floor.Work 8122.A black slab standing upright on a plain alongside a wall running out of sight in after the last team went home, raking light on a featureless face, halation glowing round a bright edge.Work 8121.A carriage rake of four matched coaches, an unrecorded season, teal shadow in a shallow cutting, neutral density over a pale sky.Work 8120.1776: shallow depth on a carved stone face of a numbered compartment door with a handle inside the engine space.Work 8119.The hundredth episode, a balloon released from the floe among dog lines, toned sepia print, saturated magenta gel wash.Work 8118.A road roller, the turn of the last century, label art with a hard black outline, sepia toned photographic print.Work 8117.The Babylonian years: a thread-strung safe deposit room, muted pastel over deep shade, two stop push in old developer.Work 8116.A skipper at the spokes of a wheel in a wheelhouse at night, lithograph on smooth trade paper, albumen print gone yellow at the edge, blown highlights on wet oilskin.Work 8115.Engraved figure from a monograph of a frost-edged spectrograph bolted at a Cassegrain focus, 1897, slide taped between two cover glasses.Work 8114.A tide-slowed sponge hook on a short pole, 1888, orthochromatic plate through green water.Work 8113.