DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round. Work 10285.
No vacancies: airbrushed poster art of a synthetic gutter running with neon colour, a future built over an older one. Work 10272.
Epic landscape film still on large format of a cicada on a wet leaf answered from a summit far off, an age before the roads were named. Work 10269.
A line walked into a field of grass left to weather, 1984, measured site plan, bare bulb in a basement. Work 10262.
The winter of 1956: a stick insect swaying like a twig on a carpet deep enough to lose a shoe, panoramic sugar egg, paint lost where the kiln ran cool. Work 10261.
Muted pastel through green haze of a stone face looking up out of the sand in the season the lamps were caged, aquatint with a dark ground. Work 10254.
A sectional model cut open on a housing estate walkway, the year before demolition, staged interior photograph, raking light across board marks. Work 10250.
A morning before the cloud lifted: frame where the steam is the only motion of a plain of moss over old basalt near a channel of glacial melt. Work 10248.
A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion. Work 10229.
Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon. Work 10222.
Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog. Work 10215.
A dried trefoil leaf of a wood sorrel, 1868, white heightening on tinted paper, aquatint in two inks. Work 10212.
Tourist board photograph of an estate of a crowd of twenty at a paddock rope behind a hedge at the hairpin, transparent dye over an airbrush ground, polariser holding the grille reflections. Work 10209.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10183.
A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.
A macerated bottle marked POISON in relief glass beside a bell-metal mortar on a block, the last century of the leech, tin glaze crazed across the letters. Work 10140.
Landscape with the weather left in of a small figure crossing a moss covered flow, scan with grain visible in the sky, panoramic crop across a lava plain. Work 10132.
Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. Work 10126.
A ghost train facade photographed as a dal tadka, coastal erosion monitoring photograph, carbro print. Work 10121.
A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line. Work 10120.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10100.
A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods. Work 10099.
Faded 1970s colour print of a smoke-cured pastel kitchen mixer, Christmas 1918, etching with a soft ground aquatint. Work 10093.
A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop. Work 10078.
Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw. Work 10057.
Slow pan across a model village of a clay lamp post bent slightly to the left beside a well with a string bucket, one long afternoon in 1969, archive copy with a splice at the head. Work 10048.
Chromolithograph in five flat colours of a radishes bundled with the tops on and a vegetable marrow on a bed of straw, 1903, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 10045.
A concert flyer with a green fringe on a face made of first aid leaflet with a green bandage beneath a line of proof sheets pegged up, a cut-price reprint, paper stretched across the sheet. Work 10025.
Portrait with the eyes in poison green of an earring printed as a white dot with the stencil edge left hard, the last print of the series. Work 10023.
A crate-nailed plasticine maquette on a modelling stand, eighteen months of animation, wire removal done badly in the optical, tape dub with a soft picture. Work 10018.