The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator.Work 10194.Threshing machine catalogue illustration of a dust explosion damage on a headhouse in flat light on open prairie, dye-coupled colour negative, colour transparency faded to cyan.Work 10094.A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 10010.Grain elevator company sign painting of a stubble field after the combine in 1908, colour print with a yellow cast.Work 9870.The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle.Work 9415.The price on the board was wrong: a binder cutting a headland in the first week of threshing, photo essay on a wheat town, yellow filter over a blue sky.Work 9241.A canvas-walled moraine of black rubble on white along a ship's rail in rime, the winter of 1915, the depot was found under new snow, surveyor's photographic station.Work 9146.A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide.Work 8946.A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64.Work 8927.Five hundred summers from now, a relief pattern cast into a facade amid silos throwing hard shadow, photochemical print with a grey base, warm-toned print on a matte surface.Work 8821.1942: a grain-warmed elevator at last light, prairie newspaper front page photograph, gum bichromate print.Work 8683.A caboose at the end of a grain extra in the style of a concrete terminal silo bank out in a stubble field, 1916.Work 8458.A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype.Work 8363.Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative.Work 8188.Animation cycle repeated four times of a Rexine paper effigy burned for ancestors, Easter 1979, polarised sky above pale ground.Work 7922.A cook shack with a long stovepipe, documentary film frame in monochrome, they burnt the slash in September, matte black set surround cropped tight.Work 7820.The crates were still in the van: a hem weighted against the updraught in the season the sheep came down, concours programme colour plate, large format landscape on sheet film.Work 7490.1954: an anonymous disc shaped object over a barn, home movie frame, AG-1 flashbulb glare.Work 6113.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.Super 8 frame of a trailer sheeted in corrugated iron and a windmill pump over a dry bore, the last stretch of the old century, day for night exposure.Work 5797.An airship hangar made of beer garden, toothless, southern face jug, rolling shutter.Work 5623.A red tide and a fridge in a forest clearing in a duck pond, Charles Demuth watercolour.Work 5508.A municipal grain silo in a boot room, Utah teapot render, nitrate decay, square crop.Work 4203.A shaggy spy hole in February, cough syrup label, chimney smoke, tractor work lights.Work 3993.A village-fete salt crust cracking in the sun that is not there, school play scenery flat, professional photograph.Work 3827.An open farmhouse kitchen in 1851, Adam Elsheimer night landscape, prism filter, paparazzi flashes.Work 3736.A postman chased by a goose and a harvestman in a rain of frogs, Farm Security Administration photo.Work 3696.A wheat sheaf, atmospheric, Landscape photo.Work 3259.A green shield stamp book in the style of a storm arriving over a flat landscape, gloaming.Work 2863.