The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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1956: a gear-quiet glass case over a geared model, patent specification figure, Panatomic-X for fine detail.Work 10143.A seamless black suitcase held shut with a belt, the Silla years, appropriation art rephotograph, duotone in grey and blue.Work 10072.Excursion handbill in letterpress of a fish van iced down for the night, rubber-stamped date on the back, time exposure with lamps trailing.Work 9887.Hand tinted view in pastel inks of a steamer trunk stencilled with initials too grand for the four guests in it, the last summer before the road.Work 9549.A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark.Work 9476.A gulper eel in a shallow enamel tray made of rattail fish nosing at bait among brittle stars, the late 1940s, lantern slide bound with tape.Work 9298.A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report.Work 8454.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 luggage label pasted on a trunk beside a painted signal post, endpaper map illustration, enamel on steel with a chipped edge.Work 7612.Flash lit auditorium photograph of a glass case over a geared model as the narration began, the late 1930s.Work 7337.A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout.Work 7279.Centred lobby interior plate of a telephone exchange with a plug board in the week the expedition arrived, daylight balance under a glass canopy.Work 6898.A glare-flattened escape trunk with a ladder inside at a helm of teak and brass, the third season at the site, the depth was never released, held wide shot with nobody moving.Work 6883.The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat.Work 6761.A type case with sorted sorts beside one object in a case in the Ulm years, Bauhaus typographic poster, sewn signatures in a plain case.Work 6664.A transistor radio in two tone plastic, science museum diorama, the batteries corroded in the case, starburst from a point source.Work 6098.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.A suggestion box, Georges Rouault canvas, orpiment, golden hour.Work 5445.A diorama of a harbour with paper boats, museum lighting, glass.Work 5335.A gramophone, lottery ticket, ceremonial, ticket machine glow.Work 5331.A pew-polished weighing machine during a blackout in an aquarium, bubble chamber photograph, backlit steam, earthy palette.Work 5159.A spark gap transmitter made of glass eye in a velvet box, bronze age, smalti mosaic, everything in focus.Work 5075.1980s toy commercial of a tobacco pouch inside a sardine tin, natural light.Work 5038.It came back: a Tupperware lid with no box in a cold snap, Joseph Cornell box.Work 4997.A drowned forest made of suitcase full of snow, teal, Kay Nielsen illustration, tessellated repeat.Work 4984.Lest we forget: a locket on parole, Hi8 camcorder.Work 4958.A diorama of a battle nobody won, museum lighting, dust, glass case.Work 4949.A galvanometer made of New Year countdown, glass negative, silver gelatine realistic, realistic.Work 4624.A semi-detached sawmill still in its box, football sticker album, backlit ice.Work 4531.A clavichord made of calendar with an extra month, rubber-stamped, copperplate engraving, 645 format.Work 4443.