The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape.Work 10195.An orrery diagram with too many planets, copperplate, hatching.Work 9915.Vapour lit from a single side of a eudiometer over mercury in the period of continuous assembly, sheet with pin holes at four corners.Work 9852.A perfectly square four masses set at even spacing measured four times and never alike, the years of the false readings, orbital plate looking straight down.Work 9741.A relief globe of moulded plaster and a title block lettered by hand past a brass turnstile at a door, the spring the globes arrived, lit to read every sounding figure.Work 9593.One module was not on the plan: negative space held around a hull of a kilometre-long desert seen from two hundred miles up, the age of the long orbits.Work 9574.The geophysical year of 1958, a hand-lashed decompression chamber porthole at three thousand fathoms, schematic cutaway of a submersible.Work 9545.Planet shine filling a shadow side of a micrometeorite-pitted wiring harness exposed on a hull, after the surface was left behind, macro detail on a single bolt head.Work 9422.1930: a carbon brush on a slip ring on a scaffold inside the dome, star field projection exposure, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 9366.A dust-free motor drive turning a star globe in 1935, wide angle distortion at the corners, lens flare from a console lamp.Work 9008.An armillary sphere on a mahogany column photographed as an equatorial mount painted pale mint, museum inventory photograph, large format colour with a deep haze.Work 8352.A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart.Work 8326.A relief globe of moulded plaster after the sheets were locked away, shift lens interior of a long room, broadcast still with scan lines.Work 7970.A drone light on a shadowed panel and an engine cluster seen from behind above a night side with one light on it, after the rings were joined, zero haze with detail all the way out.Work 7968.Quirky 1970s claymation scenes, cinematic, 70s earth tones.Work 7828.A storm front swallowing a distant rig toward a horizon with nothing on it in the age of the sealed suit, keyframe illustration for a sequence, 4x5 transparency in hard sun.Work 7750.Planet limb set on the lower edge of a scorch mark along a hull flank lit on one edge and black elsewhere, the year the copy shop closed.Work 7681.A peacock worm and a prince turned into a stag, screenprint on newsprint at speed, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 7653.Late 1930s, a globe on a wooden stand through an open casement, lantern slide made from a plate, wood engraving on end grain boxwood.Work 7378.An orrery diagram with too many planets, copperplate, hatching.Work 7183.A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy.Work 6825.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.The year the first computer arrived in the office, an atlas of countries that move on a pebble beach at Sochi, bromoil transfer, chroma bleed from video.Work 6140.A moated widowed drought-cracked riverbed, airbrush painting, the flower rota, polarised sky.Work 5404.A cinematic city on a space rock floating over the Earth, black and white, 35mm.Work 5314.An octagonal flowstone that nobody ordered, flight route map, low cloud.Work 5088.Jealous of the moon: an eclipse shadow crossing a desert in a drought at a sunken reservoir, Franz von Stuck canvas.Work 4762.Kakiemon porcelain of a dunkleosteus on a matchstick, starry night light.Work 4666.