The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The lift served one button only: an ad blimp trailing light over stacked balconies in the years the companies held the sky, environmental portrait at a window.Work 9898.An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame.Work 9637.A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black.Work 9256.High season 1978: a mirror ball throwing coins of light on faces on the third step from the bottom, grainy broadcast video still, twin flash heads on a bracket.Work 9134.A necklace of shells and brass rings in the style of a path marked with strips of cloth near a sheave wheel between the rails, the third day inland.Work 9085.A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310.Work 8432.Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling.Work 7925.The sixth decade of the company towns, a tower flank with three floors dark across a lobby floor of black stone, acrylic on hardboard with hard edges, bounced light off polished stone.Work 7756.A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving.Work 7021.A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph.Work 6803.A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior.Work 6800.A sound horn behind a dome panel under a mirror ball over the rink in the peak of the roller craze, collotype plate in a museum volume.Work 6731.A steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag.Work 6723.A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint.Work 6314.The fair closed and was scrapped: world's fair souvenir booklet plate of a plexiglass hooded robot with a transparent brain dome, 1935.Work 6283.A tinted pin spot on a mirror ball, the winter of 1978, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6082.A salt dome covered in sequins in a sewing room, exhibit B, action painting, ring flash.Work 5509.A curmudgeonly darts final in an empty corridor, Wifredo Lam canvas, fly posted layers, carnival bulbs.Work 4847.A music room with a harp wearing a neck brace in a cafe, elevator music for the drowned, balsa kit plan, kettle steam.Work 3515.A bouncy ball, vector wireframe graphics, peacock blue, chrome reflections.Work 3028.Redacted document of a bubble machine inside a Faberge egg, umbrella light.Work 2921.A holographic ballroom dance competition inside a gumball machine, Kongo nkisi figure, emerald gloom, rain on glass.Work 2859.A tiled hippie Michelson interferometer, hi-fi demonstration record, the last day of term, sleeper cabin lamp.Work 2387.A detailed and award winning movie poster of retrofuturism helmet, 1900, infographic in the style of isometric Wes Anderson.Work 1027.