The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 10293.The camera ran out: a row of fruit machines in 1964, projected home movie, Kodachrome II movie film.Work 10246.A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare.Work 10124.Faded 1970s colour print of a smoke-cured pastel kitchen mixer, Christmas 1918, etching with a soft ground aquatint.Work 10093.A bureaucratic note left on a kitchen table, the mid 1970s, available light night frame, Eastmancolor faded to magenta.Work 10040.An updated inset of an overseas possession beside a magenta warning lamp, the year the hull was closed out, the far end of the arm was never inspected, zincograph for a cheap pocket issue.Work 9932.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9765.A woman in a halter dress lifting a chrome kettle and a man in a bold striped shirt at a calculator, tabloid nightlife photograph, magazine halftone at 150 lines.Work 9760.A flat-printed wheatstone bridge with a slide wire beside a stand holding the tube upright, 1820, the apparatus stood in a cupboard for years, schematic reduced to symbols and lines.Work 9757.Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor.Work 9746.Shoebox of loose prints of a boilermaker and a domestic science room with six cookers, the era of the Model T, ring flash catchlight.Work 9600.Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9339.A television set in nine flat squares, an edition of two hundred, print with the same figure in ten inks, library stamp bled into the paper.Work 9308.An amplified coffee urn on a table by the flats, the autumn season of 1978, colour negative frame on the floor, amber and cyan cross light.Work 9260.Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus.Work 9165.The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls.Work 9157.A kapok stuffed blueprint copier against a pot metal blue, the year nobody photographed, diorama backing photograph.Work 8800.The winter of 1968: VHS box art of pincers beside a wall of armco.Work 8782.A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan.Work 8445.A quietly absurd tea can warming on a tiny boiler dwarfed by the plain around it, the short seasons, timetable leaflet cover image.Work 8234.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8220.The last summer before the road, a pink-marbled kitchen pass hung with copper pans stencilled with a stores number, haze filled lobby held perfectly level.Work 8190.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8189.A pinnied envelope with a stamp upside down on a stage floor painted gloss grey, the glam rock years, the last coal burner went for scrap in 1958, photolithograph.Work 8015.The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner.Work 7938.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7801.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7584.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7448.The sounding line ran out at two hundred: reissued exploration plate in colour of an echo-flat boiler with a chimney going into rock, the first winter below.Work 7325.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7272.