The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome.Work 10234.Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper.Work 10179.Forensic comparison plate of a feather quill bridge over a brook along a lit catwalk with no rail, green phosphor light, show-through of the following page.Work 10061.Composition with two thirds sky of a slab-sided survey stake driven into hardpan, the end of the mapping era, 70mm print struck for a large screen.Work 9985.A kamale ngoni against a wall of coarse magenta dots, nobody could play it.Work 9365.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9362.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9301.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9282.An adobe-walled hybrid airship, the Maya classic period, Coptic icon panel, pastel palette on faded stock.Work 9265.A solemn-faced boundary stone with two faces carved, the age of the stone cutters, panoramic roll film on a rotating back.Work 9198.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9045.A refractory-lined coiler winding hot strip, the boom before the strike, solarised print from a lab error.Work 8907.High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints.Work 8875.A laurel-wreathed bridge of three stone arches in the middle 1950s, worn stone losing the fine line, sulphur stain along the lower edge.Work 8305.Mist separating each range from the next of a tower window no wider than a hand, stone lithograph in four greys, print on matte paper with no gloss.Work 8239.1970s wallpaper.Work 7924.A lord mayor in chains of office beside a ribbon spool in the year the power station opened, Agfa Record Rapid paper.Work 7874.1970s cartoon, wes anderson.Work 7722.Leaded stained glass with painted trace of a highlights picked out of a matt in the head of a tall church window, pot metal glass leaded with painted trace, broken glass held with a mending lead.Work 6922.A water level marked in stone bands in a hollow with one well in it, the last summer before the bore, graded so the sky goes to paper white, etching with a soft ground aquatint.Work 6853.The last summer of the 1940s: a tweedy Erzgebirge Christmas pyramid, oil spill survey photograph, an 80A filter forgotten.Work 6360.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare.Work 6237.Axonometric projection in line of a ribbed box girder bridge deck, the reconstruction years, Velvia saturated transparency.Work 5897.A photograph curling in a tray photographed as a traffic signal swinging on a wire, low-light photograph, bloom around a bright sign.Work 5893.A Penrose triangle, black and white television, pockmarked, masterpiece.Work 5729.The original: a La Llorona in a fine mizzle, Ivan Albright canvas.Work 5704.A sea green cable-knit platypus as a customs officer, Ethiopian manuscript, the saints are closed for lunch, buttery light.Work 5234.A market street at the busiest hour, street photography, motion blur.Work 5180.A tambourine crossing an empty road at night in a call centre, the manager has been informed, neo-expressionist painting, fluorescent flicker.Work 5003.