The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A schematic of a radio that receives nothing, blueprint, oil stains.Work 10286.A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables.Work 10256.The camera ran out: a row of fruit machines in 1964, projected home movie, Kodachrome II movie film.Work 10246.Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge.Work 10211.An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night.Work 9956.An updated inset of an overseas possession beside a magenta warning lamp, the year the hull was closed out, the far end of the arm was never inspected, zincograph for a cheap pocket issue.Work 9932.Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board.Work 9511.A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette.Work 9426.General arrangement elevation of a speaker stack strapped to a tower and a stage struck back to bare tube, the year the frame was bought used, offset litho in black and silver.Work 9361.A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red.Work 9358.Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9339.Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus.Work 9165.A wrong-coloured hair dryer in four flat panels with one cell left as bare paper, an unnumbered proof run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised.Work 9025.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8988.An ear-defended xerox-blown fuse box with a hand written label, the years counted by crossings, matte painting with a live column in it, time base error across a frame.Work 8859.Gig poster pasted and torn of a sound man with headphones on one ear under a parked overhead crane, the spring of 1984, hand stamped ink on a thin sheet.Work 8446.Combat photographer's frame of an ash strewn spectroheliograph, the World Cup summer of 1962, Kodak T-Max P3200.Work 8328.A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor.Work 8187.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8186.Every copy was dubbed at high speed: photocopied insert at brutal contrast of an eight-up four track recorder with all lights on, the week the deck ate a tape.Work 8044.1863: a switchboard jack and plug in the blowing room in fly, the office manner with no ornament, print trimmed to the border rule.Work 8029.1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate.Work 8020.The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film.Work 7999.The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner.Work 7938.A control room of lit buttons against a flat cyan ground, comic art thickened for a coarse screen, tape marks along two edges.Work 7838.An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge.Work 7812.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7801.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7567.A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred.Work 7464.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 7290.