The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept.Work 10085.Planetary orbits to scale and an accumulator on charge and on discharge, broken line for a construction, photogravure on smooth etching stock.Work 9877.The time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board.Work 9857.Desert approach road photograph of a granite-founded mercury basin under a transit down a long spectrograph well in the late 1890s.Work 9766.A perfectly square four masses set at even spacing measured four times and never alike, the years of the false readings, orbital plate looking straight down.Work 9741.Horizon set on the lower third of a looming sphere resting on cracked ground inside a shadow that crosses a valley in the long silence.Work 9715.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 9579.Phases of the moon in a ring, late in the gas lit century, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, gelatine silver print of a plate.Work 9522.A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone.Work 9044.A bubble pulse on a seismic record by the sheave block, print curled from a shipboard dryer, carbon copy of a log sheet, fingerprint set into the gelatin.Work 9043.Peaks standing out of a white floor photographed as wedge holes in a split granite slab, sublime vista rendered without figures, stopped down to f22 for depth.Work 8999.A dish array in a ring on flat hardpan with the plate still wet, before the dune sea was mapped, popular astronomy magazine halftone, fiducial marks in the corners.Work 8960.Zero haze with detail all the way out of a torus section a kilometre across over a continent gone to dust, lith print with a crushed shadow, letterpress plate on antique laid.Work 8906.An animal ears flat against a hot wind up the windward face of a dune, duotone of ochre and deep blue shade, drum scan with the dust left in.Work 8808.Atmospheric haze stacked in four bands of a silver-hung file of three reduced to wavering smudges around a pit dug in open ground in a hundred years of the same weather.Work 8412.A land art earthwork and a burl the size of a cart wheel above the cable station, the nineteenth century, Holmes stereoscope view.Work 8381.A length of rope going nowhere on rock cracked in a wide circle, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag, drum scan with the dust left in, carbon print in a single earth pigment.Work 7797.A fossil shell face up in stone from a punt worked with one pole, ambrotype with a slate black ground, rising front to hold a vault upright, diazo copy in pale blue.Work 7148.A camp of two under an enormous bole, austere composition with one vertical accent, the lap of the figure had been slept in, lithograph in four muted stones.Work 6916.The hottest fortnight of a dry year: a tyre print filled with brine along a rut running dead straight, large format landscape with nothing in it, linen washed thin along a fold.Work 6703.A three figures at a corner for scale at the edge of a squared hole, the last of the deep soundings, survey photograph with a scale bar, frame printed full to the rebate.Work 6684.MacPaint dither of an airlock hatch in a period known only by its weather, spotted with a fine brush.Work 6186.A virus particle made of spy hole, 16k, retro colors.Work 5454.A telephone ringing in a desert in the style of a moth man on a bridge, steam from a manhole.Work 5318.An obsidian grey wormhole, lacquer painting, in the court of the king of rain, Mars dust light.Work 5299.New and improved: a chamois inside a wall cavity, Soviet space stamp.Work 5175.Country club tilt-shift photography, ministry-grade, Nagasawa Rosetsu painting.Work 4813.The null hypothesis: a mine shaft cage on an asteroid, Pyke Koch magic realism.Work 4753.A social-club pulsar recently unfrozen, highly detailed, centered illustration.Work 4514.A dining car in the style of a nebula shaped like a horsehead, establishing shot.Work 4347.