The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog.Work 6567.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.Patent illustration in line of a planetarium projector like an insect, 35mm with a slight grain, practical lamps in the set.Work 6480.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink.Work 6449.A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6446.Portuguese azulejo panel of an hourglass in a brass frame in the opening years of the 1910s, astigmatic corners.Work 6443.A Mercury locomotive shroud and a smoking room with Egyptian murals, film still in black and white, large format with a shift lens.Work 6435.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.Music press photograph of a strobing matchbook on a table, the height of disco, High Speed Ektachrome.Work 6418.A Hatzegopteryx, Christmas 1945, safety film still, copper toned print.Work 6407.A coral pink paper lantern lit at dusk in a Madeira hotel garden, the year the reef was still clear, the brochure colour was not the sea, slide from a holiday carousel.Work 6389.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.A mirrored ceiling over a floor photographed as a neon reflected in a wet street, silkscreen poster, bounce flash off a mirrored ceiling.Work 6327.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400.Work 6300.The fair closed and was scrapped: world's fair souvenir booklet plate of a plexiglass hooded robot with a transparent brain dome, 1935.Work 6283.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6255.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.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.The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face.Work 6247.A waiter standing with a tray photographed as an argument seen through a window, empty frame after the actors leave, lamp flare into the lens.Work 6242.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6220.A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone.Work 6191.A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead.Work 6188.