The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy.Work 10117.A raked palm tree rendered as a chevron beside a flying fish frieze in gilt on blue, the jazz age, menu illustration from a liner.Work 10035.A sun-glared spindrifted bamboo wand with a black flag, the mid 1920s, appendix plate of instruments, carbon print in warm brown.Work 9334.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.A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative.Work 8819.A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens.Work 8599.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.A bassist with a thumb on the low string, poster paint illustration in flat colour, she picked the gowns herself, faded Ektacolor gone warm.Work 8111.A sweat running down a shaved head beside a stacked amplifier, a Tuesday in 1994, monochrome with the greys squeezed out, flat ink pulled through a fine mesh.Work 8083.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 7761.Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years.Work 7439.A heat-cracked bass player nodding at the floor manager beside a tray of glitter and sponges on a stool, the last season on tape, woodcut illustration of a harvest.Work 7111.A brake drum rack slung on chain, the Surrealist years, screen printed grand prix poster, blueprint.Work 6909.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.A harp in a hotel lobby at three in the morning, available light, empty.Work 6358.An organ player on a jingle session and a razor pulled through shaving foam, network feed frame, varnished poster stock.Work 6322.Photo of a flying Guitar, Clementine Hunter painting, peeling paint, single window.Work 6282.A Marenghi organ front against a black sky, 1950, vernacular photograph, magicube flash.Work 6214.A band on a small stage, watercolour of a country house, the band played until four, Pictorialist soft focus.Work 6127.A raven as a court poet made of saxophone, fogged-up, fresco secco, lossless.Work 5472.A piano being lifted through a window, black and white, 35mm, crowd below.Work 5386.Kept on file indefinitely: a bog snorkeller in the Gilded Age, technicolor musical.Work 5230.Space Invaders screen of a jazz age trumpeter in a school playground, infinity mirror.Work 5129.A harp in a hotel lobby at three in the morning, available light, empty.Work 5004.A bouzouki as a duke at Lag BaOmer, for my mother, Parmigianino portrait, ordered dithering.Work 4905.A congregation standing to sing, Harnett trompe l'oeil still life, cropped at the head, tax office gloom.Work 4447.An omen of a good harvest: a floral armchair in a luthier's workshop, star fort plan.Work 4359.An unexcavated indigo cat show, UPA cartoon, a lullaby for machines, varnish gleam.Work 4346.Smile for the man: a fire drill in the organ loft, hotel room seascape painting.Work 4250.A babylonian swampy locksmith picking a lock, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 4191.