The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A running order taped to the proscenium beside a well of painted tins, the week of the village pageant, cross fade between two stage pictures, quadruplex banding across the picture.Work 10274.Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors.Work 10257.Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel.Work 10082.A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative.Work 10076.A hotel block at Golden Sands in a seafront shelter, zoom in and back out again, back-lit by the sea, Ektachrome 160D.Work 9989.A wolpertinger mounted in a hunting lodge at a bench of ruling pens in a row, onionskin second sheet, print with the sea tint slightly out, Fomapan R100 reversal.Work 9920.A satellite dish on a tenement balcony and a champagne tower, screenprint, an M3 flashbulb.Work 9914.The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots.Work 9901.The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar.Work 9879.A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys.Work 9865.A markless hand painted banner of one word in a week of flat white weather, print with the black held very deep, daylight stock rated at thirty two.Work 9862.The last century of the leech: an aromatic brass syringe in a velvet bed, woodcut with the colour outside the line, chromolithograph on a thick board.Work 9833.A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 9752.Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph.Work 9731.Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film.Work 9723.A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink.Work 9706.Banner print of eight repeats of a door key in nine flat squares across a proof with a cell missing, squeegee pulled unevenly down the left, screen clog leaving a pale patch.Work 9705.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9697.An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun.Work 9686.Study of one silhouette lit from behind of a figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers in a week with the studio to itself, grain visible only in the black.Work 9649.A van de graaff belt and comb on a plate divided into four panels in the age of the great exhibitions, sheet sun faded along one edge.Work 9570.1970s wallpaper.Work 9569.A figure narrowed to a gleaming stalk made of figure in a girdle of nacre buttons near a doorway with no light behind it, the third night of the same setup, print laid under glass for the gloss.Work 9560.Mid-century, an overblown flowering stem of a common valerian with the soil still on the root, stipple laid in with the needle alone.Work 9475.A pipe cleaner soldier in a scarlet coat behind a proscenium of painted hardboard in the week of the village pageant, vision mixer cut between two cameras.Work 9461.Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened.Work 9413.A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps.Work 9336.Joke glasses with a nose inside a hangar with the doors open, 1-bit dither bitmap, stopped down for the whole court.Work 9148.Engineering sectional elevation of a silk reeling basin with a filament and a piece of grey cloth on a perch, 1910, 120 roll film square frame.Work 9050.Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture.Work 9036.