DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy. Work 10117.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10100.
Muscles of the face named photographed as a baseline grid ruled in pale blue, linocut in two flat colours, one hard light from the left. Work 10038.
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.
A face in three quarter profile in a Prague courtyard in the spring of 1968, Gevacolor cold blues. Work 9965.
Spanish match label art of a horse's head in a laurel wreath in the post-war export years, two inks overlapping into a dark line. Work 9899.
A figure with three collars stacked upward, portrait with a tape measure left in, it stood up on its own afterwards, daylight balanced stock under soft boxes. Work 9859.
A fishwife's head in sour pink and an apprentice's head in flat sand, banner portrait in two loud inks, tape marks down two sides. Work 9856.
1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed. Work 9775.
A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.
A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro. Work 9607.
Plate printed in olive then hand finished of a waxy flowering head of a wild carrot, 1839, gum arabic left glossy on the petals. Work 9588.
A cropped tight eucalyptus-lined fairground barker's face in scarlet, a run of six heads in six inks, portrait with the shadows as one black, print pinned through four corners. Work 9559.
A toner-streaked masthead with the name misspelled, 1992, photocopy on paper of four colours. Work 9556.
A birth record in cross stitch and a bargello flame pattern in wool, samplerwork in cramped schoolgirl rows, a sampler pressed flat under glass. Work 9527.
Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9467.
An off-cut long-exposed flower head in sixteen colourways, an edition of two hundred, optical shop record photograph, print made on glossy bromide. Work 9407.
A kamale ngoni against a wall of coarse magenta dots, nobody could play it. Work 9365.
Long after the finders were forgotten, a seamless face reflecting a pale sky through haze breaking a lower edge, silver print with a blocked shadow, neutral density for a slow shutter. Work 9304.
Flattened montage of nine band names of a scissor-trimmed typed note apologising for the hiss below a hand-inked cover image in the last dub off the master. Work 9267.
1844: silverpoint outline with a wash of grey of a yellow wagtail among cattle under a running head in italic. Work 9255.
Printed on India paper and mounted of heavily inked layers of the retina magnified on a folding plate bound at the spine in 1814. Work 9188.
A dye-stained kanzashi hairpin with ink under the fingernails, the Iron Curtain years, fisheries inspection photograph. Work 9150.
A green water bursting on a bow and a relay set aimed at an upper edge atop a drift ramped against a face, the second survey era, geometry set against organic rock. Work 9028.
A breathing filter on a cheek, underwater colour transparency, the log was in pencil because of the wet, dyeline copy of a work study sheet. Work 8981.
Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point. Work 8949.
A hangar-bound bow cap of riveted panels in the first season of the mast, cyanotype of an engineering plate, gum bichromate in two pulls. Work 8887.
A thick-inked fishwife's head in sour pink behind a microphone on a boom, the last print of the series, one head was pulled upside down, multiple portrait of one head. Work 8874.
One-roll document of a whole show of an unamplified hot spot of flash on a forehead toward a microphone held out flat in a hundred degree July. Work 8851.
An accountant's head in flat slate over a sheet taped at four corners, the second sitting, screenprint head over a halftone photo, guillotine cut through the chin. Work 8825.