The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter.Work 8500.A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all.Work 7684.The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years.Work 7546.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 smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration.Work 6677.A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam.Work 6425.A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind.Work 6317.A retouched incense burner in the spring of 1964, ORWO UT20, Diafine two bath development.Work 5772.A burnished barrel organ requiring two signatures, lobby still, barbecue coals.Work 4159.Homesick for a place that burned: a bellows moments before the collision, Méliès trick film.Work 3840.Mechanical flower, Oskar Fischinger abstract film, flaming torches.Work 3429.Aztec codex of a peat fire smouldering in the year 1000, early afternoon light.Work 3421.A tibetan cuckoo at the spring equinox, Chartres blue glass, nature hide telephoto, edison bulb.Work 3320.A bandaged pedigree bottled lightning, government pamphlet, close your eyes, glow of a chip pan fire.Work 3213.A tipsy triumphal arch pending inspection, Jomon pottery, tealights.Work 3017.A wardrobe floating down a river, bronze statue, bonfire smoke, catchlights.Work 2721.A model volcano erupting on a kitchen table, flash, smoke.Work 2145.A milestone in the style of a black smoker, shot from inside an oven.Work 1981.A flame test, airline poster, crystal, xenon lamp.Work 1540.They called it progress: a fire eater in a municipal park, mourning picture.Work 1429.