The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on.Work 10042.A cladding sheet dented at head height, pushed monochrome documentation frame, the hoist was rated well under it, two colour litho slightly off register.Work 9911.A concrete terminal silo bank at a sampling bench, grain company annual report photograph, blueprint line and wash.Work 9783.A lone traveller framed by a circular hatch and a figure at the centre of a lit white ring under a ceiling with no fixture in it, the era before the hatch was named, visual sketch at the eyepiece.Work 9680.A rope-worn mist-cut ladder well down through three floors, an age measured only in watches, storm light across a bare granite face, film stock pushed one stop.Work 9634.Outside broadcast camera frame of a bottle sparkler held high in a booth and a whole floor singing one line together, the spring of 1980, push-processed grain in the shadows.Work 9490.1930: a carbon brush on a slip ring on a scaffold inside the dome, star field projection exposure, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 9366.The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure.Work 9175.Back cover photograph of a yard of a skip with a burned out base, two colour litho off register at the edge, dust trapped under the ink film.Work 8813.A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set.Work 8788.Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock.Work 8407.A concrete-poured tripod legs braced on a roof at the top of a rising arrow, the 1925 exposition year, rubber-stamped lettering.Work 8052.A bunk in a forecastle with a curtain and a spray freezing on a foredeck, fish box stencil lettering, grey scale with no white in it.Work 7919.Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper.Work 7699.Measured elevation at a fixed scale of a scaffold rig against a raw wall, duotone offset in grey and bone, fine grain sheet film rated slow.Work 7650.Gouache study on grid paper of a water tower on splayed legs and a lattice tower spiralling upward, the years of the workers' club, letterpress on grey newsprint.Work 7529.Stencil-numbered dumb waiter shaft between two decks near a rack of numbered life belts, the first season of the mast, a passenger counted the frames aloud, Victorian engineering plate in colour.Work 7261.Frame built on one long horizontal of an apple picker on a ladder in the year the pit baths opened, chart with a pinhole where dividers stood.Work 7147.A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low.Work 7006.Two attendants carrying a rolled white mat and a figure descending a ladder of lit rungs behind a hatch of smoked glass, the second century of the passage, deep focus anamorphic frame.Work 6917.Construction photograph of a dome shell of an orbital diagram painted on a panel, scan lines across a dome image, points of light slightly out of round.Work 6854.Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour.Work 6662.Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object.Work 6617.Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years.Work 6393.A library with a rolling ladder made of ballot box in a gallery behind a line of butts, the first season after the war, bled off the page.Work 6050.A youth hostel common room in a rain shower in 2018, offset misregistration.Work 5925.Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light.Work 5919.New and improved: a fire escape after the fire, street photography.Work 4682.A jacobean water pistol on stilts, section perspective, tropical noon, weathered billboard.Work 4478.A taxidermied muralist on a scaffold over a pier, Book of the Dead vignette, low angle, real estate HDR.Work 4249.