The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel.Work 10202.Czech avant garde photogram of an old fashioned in a cape opened to the floor, the winter of 1975.Work 9324.A frost giant blowing on a window atop a plinth battered by wind, chromogenic print with a warm cast, fast film pushed two stops, colour left as the meter read it.Work 9262.Cutaway illustration of a cistern of a thirst-driven copper dome gone green with age on ground wet for ten paces only in the end of a four year drought.Work 8886.Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film.Work 8813.Film to tape transfer frame of a water tank of riveted plate on legs in the Vijayanagara years, flash cube burn in the corner.Work 8783.A bin lid tiled across a grid numbered by hand in the margin, a signed edition, comic advertisement page illustration, ink bleeding under the stencil.Work 8736.The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights.Work 8612.A rushed toy catalogue robot printed twice in the quarter the press was overdue a service, broken type where the plate scratched, green where the flesh should be.Work 8561.Socialist realist mill scene of a club moss and a Cold War fallout shelter tin, Christmas 1980, optical composite over a matte.Work 7944.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 7667.Glare-flattened midday rendering of a crate of packing straw and stone in the long waiting season, sepia wash over a pencil outline.Work 7351.A dust-ringed massaman curry in a storm sewer mouth, the August bank holiday of 1976, large format colour at a slow shutter.Work 7089.Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency.Work 7067.A hundred staples and no flyer left made of mailbox side covered in pasted paper near a boiler and a water heater, the night before a show, eight flyers cut from one sheet.Work 6697.A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot.Work 6580.An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print.Work 6460.The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light.Work 6422.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print.Work 6381.A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam.Work 6249.A paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines.Work 6181.The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane.Work 6156.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion.Work 5877.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.A judicial yeti by a post box, Hawaiian quilt, raindrops lit up, cosmic background glow.Work 5665.Kodachrome slide of a hoopla stall, Type C colour print, Kodak Ektachrome E-4.Work 5575.A landfill site in the style of a Voyager golden record, camera shake.Work 5493.A quarantine tent, pharmaceutical advertisement, pipe cleaner, bus shelter advert glow.Work 5473.