DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10293.
Periscope cross hairs on a freighter behind a lettered sound effect in a summer double number, process red and cyan figure study, rotary press blur at the panel edge. Work 10292.
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.
A tank turret swinging at the reader printed at twice the intended size, the year the dots got bigger, dot pattern standing in for shading, trim cut through a colour bar. Work 10245.
The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes. Work 10186.
Science fiction production illustration of a batching plant with four silos among unfinished floor plates, after the concrete plant closed, polariser cutting glare off concrete. Work 10128.
A skeleton articulated on a brass rod, 1822, group of curators facing the lens, letterpress figure with a caption below. Work 10095.
A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust. Work 9987.
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.
An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night. Work 9956.
The platform sole years, a robot made of radio parts under the wing of a stopped flyer, hand-held wobble, print with the steam held grey. Work 9937.
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.
A googie spaceport, sectional schematic of a boiler, the corners came unstuck, tempera cracked in a fine net. Work 9840.
A tank on a plinth covered in flowers, glasnost, fire damage assessment photograph, four colour process misregistration. Work 9773.
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.
A freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film. Work 9665.
A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables. Work 9632.
The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick. Work 9575.
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 self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative. Work 9363.
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.
Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9339.
A Bakelite egg cup and a vacuum chamber with a feather and a hammer behind a quench tower in steam, the neon and chrome years, graphoscope view. Work 9300.
An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative. Work 9243.
The last edition before quantum theory: severe clarity with nothing decorative of a distillation apparatus with a condenser beside a key lettered a to h. Work 9194.
A colossal vast valve wheel taller than the man beside it, the survey years, commemorative brochure image, contact print from a survey negative. Work 9082.
Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9041.
Cassette insert with a figure row of a press-fed figure feeding a flat belt drive, the first shift after the shutdown, print with a retouched background. Work 9013.