DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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Tournament programme colour plate of a lemon-yellow man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, the first week of the club season, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 10230.
The early 1920s: stylised sunburst behind a peak of a lemon cut across the segments on a rocky coastal point. Work 10155.
An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster and a highball with the bubbles still climbing in a bachelor apartment, the Eisenhower years, airbrushed advertising illustration. Work 10102.
A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.
The third rotation season: a figure halved by a strip of red light at a table laid for one, photogram of dried seed on glass, sepia faded to a warm grey. Work 10020.
A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line. Work 9792.
A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline. Work 9568.
A trapeze artist's face in hot yellow in the style of a barman's head in poison lime over a poster pasted to a wall, a commission paid in advance. Work 9502.
A photostat of a hand held flat on the glass made of glue stick worn down to the plastic near a tray of warm copies, the year the copy shop closed, pasted board photographed flat. Work 9270.
Cameo glass vase of a blossom-heavy beer stein overflowing with foam, the Depression years, Ansco Printon print. Work 9182.
A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.
1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint. Work 8972.
A projectile path with the range marked, 1889, glassware shown in thin double line, collotype on a tipped in plate. Work 8905.
An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page. Work 8847.
A bucket of ice on a smoked glass table under a bank of pin spots in the last of the deep soundings, focus stacked for a two mile depth. Work 8822.
Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a faultless man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, 1979, 6x4.5 rollfilm colour. Work 8785.
An acid pink soda glass with two straws blown up to the height of a wall, the hundredth issue, billboard-scale comic panel. Work 8563.
A month with every well low: a silt-heavy tea being poured from height, telephoto shot flattening a whole crowd, oil on canvas with a warm ground. Work 8547.
1568: a porphyry slab with a muller behind a bottle marked POISON, photographed by daylight on a bench, hand colour brushed over a woodcut. Work 8438.
A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years. Work 8433.
A silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape. Work 8376.
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.
The Soweto years, a candid tankard with a glass bottom in a white space age dress with cut outs, gilt lettering on black glass. Work 8061.
A greenish pub menu with a green pint at the counter of a boot room, the last job before the works closed, the sheet slipped once and kept going, handbill art with hand-set type. Work 8049.
The opening years of the 1860s, a strip-lit cornet with a pint glass held by the rim, Art Nouveau poster. Work 8042.
A fume-hazed man in slippers on a balcony at breakfast in the opening years of the 1970s, grainless large format colour, trimmed off centre on the sheet. Work 8017.
1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7789.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 7739.
Feature matchbook with a shaped top of a silt-veiled cocktail glass with an olive, the post-war export years, aniline pink shifted toward grey. Work 7645.
The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season. Work 7477.