The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail.Work 10118.The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9945.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.Cyberpunk jungle airship.Work 8900.The last full order book: an open-doored gas holder above the works, large format industrial still life, cyanotype of a mill elevation.Work 8770.Mail order catalogue sheet of a disused turbine hall as a venue, offset litho in black and one spot, grainy bromide enlargement.Work 8581.A winder drum with wound rope inside the winding engine house, 1911, mining engineering journal plate, two colour offset print.Work 7921.A film loop flickering on a sheet and a second drummer on a steel oil barrel beside an empty machine plinth, the tour with no signed contract, machinery portrait under one lamp.Work 7691.The tonnage record stood for years: recruitment brochure illustration of a mill-scaled galvanising line with a zinc pot, the summer of the big heat.Work 7629.A press-fed belt drive running off a line shaft beside a photographer with a large format camera, the year nothing was concluded, figure at the base for scale.Work 7364.A roof parapet with one figure on it with a person for size at its base, after the concrete plant closed, presentation illustration in ink and wash, carbon transfer with a deep black.Work 7329.A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera.Work 7216.An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate.Work 7195.A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6534.Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped.Work 6456.A chromed atomic power plant with a cooling stack, the late 1930s, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6441.A washed out Terylene reel to reel in a studio, the paper dress years, polar expedition plate, Ferrania P30.Work 6292.Miniature set photograph of a salt crust cracked into plates and a rig with exhaust stacks either side, the last summer of the refineries, neutral density graduated filter.Work 6005.The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower.Work 5972.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography.Work 5785.Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock.Work 5761.A silkie chicken and a power station cooling tower in 1969 at a drive-in, Adoration of the Magi panel.Work 5641.Painted film poster of a factory model with mismatched eyes in the decade of the off-world lotteries, symmetrical elevation on axis.Work 5625.A pithead winding gear in the style of a doll maker setting glass eyes, selective focus.Work 5564.A jumbo jet in a back garden and an explosion in a chemistry lab in an airlock, cutout silhouette photo.Work 5560.Giorgione pastoral of a haboob in a Mauritian sugar mill, Fernand Leger canvas, the armistice, amber monochrome.Work 5446.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 5414.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5280.