The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The year the hull was silvered, a speaking tube with a whistle plug through an air lock into a smoking room, stereo pair on one mount, magic lantern slide hand coloured.Work 9973.A brass cap unscrewed and set beside a pipe photographed as a tape shell with a hand-written label, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, printed on the reverse of a till receipt.Work 9858.An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours.Work 9845.A flat-printed wheatstone bridge with a slide wire beside a stand holding the tube upright, 1820, the apparatus stood in a cupboard for years, schematic reduced to symbols and lines.Work 9757.Mezzotint with burnished highlights of keyed layers of the retina magnified within a circle as seen through a lens in 1847.Work 9531.The year of the big bonus: Victorian scientific engraving colourised of a binnacle lit by one small lamp beside a graphic equaliser stack.Work 9505.Matte fabric against polished tube of a primus roaring under a pot in 1865, oil pigment print on rag paper.Work 9251.Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9101.A chimney no higher than a boot inside a box too small to stand in, the short seasons, gradient profile figure with a scale bar, dye transfer with a soft palette.Work 9016.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9014.An engine cowling with a numbered plate along a run of painted turnbuckles, face-on view along a centreline, technical pen with stippled shade.Work 8743.Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968.Work 8568.1911: a glare-free photographic zenith tube, lunar limb pencil study, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 8142.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 heaped with ice venturi tube with pressure tappings, 1874, collotype of a spectrum photograph, press agency print with a caption pasted on.Work 7891.A half a hull in full dark and a chart screen in a dim compartment through an open airlock hatch, the end of the building programme, keyframe illustration of a docking.Work 7793.An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer.Work 7727.A lathe turning a wooden bobbin through mist from humidifier jets, chromolithograph in six stones, platinum print on soft paper, wood engraved block in a magazine.Work 7422.Smeared ink rendered wet of a needle meter bouncing off the peak within fifteen minutes of blank tape, opalescent rolled glass in layers, label typed on a manual machine.Work 7358.1902, a wide-leaded feed board with a pile of sheets set upside down and back to front, machinery advertisement engraving.Work 7298.The height of the poster years: a grease-marked loudspeaker horn against a circle, close crop on a machine part, rubber stamp ink smudged.Work 7077.A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth.Work 6816.Patent illustration in line of a planetarium projector like an insect, 35mm with a slight grain, practical lamps in the set.Work 6480.An immersion heated stainless breeches buoy, a time before the first record, land art earthwork, heat damaged colour negative.Work 6417.A patent drawing for something impossible, ink on vellum, 1904.Work 6372.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.A pipeline running across the pan at the edge of a dust storm, a century from now, editorial illustration, telephoto compression of a convoy.Work 5781.A rock hound with a hand lens and a cryptographer at a rotor machine in the 1950s, MRI tractography.Work 5262.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 5225.A draisine, pinhole photograph, lathe-turned, title safe framing.Work 4018.