The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The year the hull was silvered, a speaking tube with a whistle plug through an air lock into a smoking room, stereo pair on one mount, magic lantern slide hand coloured.Work 9973.Mezzotint with burnished highlights of keyed layers of the retina magnified within a circle as seen through a lens in 1847.Work 9531.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.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8544.Engraved figure from a monograph of a frost-edged spectrograph bolted at a Cassegrain focus, 1897, slide taped between two cover glasses.Work 8114.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 7707.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.The newspaper kiosk years: extreme low angle photograph of a searchlight beam cutting upward through a circle cut in paper.Work 7676.Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout.Work 7661.Repetition study in monochrome of a goggles pushed up on a forehead beside a brake press folding a panel, the last full production year, duplicator sheet with a double image.Work 7624.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7567.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7373.A moon-washed slow motion handwheel of brass in a radio room with a brass key, 1874, observatory site survey plate.Work 7237.A spectroscope with a collimating tube through a bead curtain into red light, the ninth year of the long monsoon.Work 7156.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7120.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7081.The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed.Work 7012.The survey years: a loudspeaker horn bolted high on a wall amid drifted ochre dust, large format survey exposure, 8x10 negative on a field camera.Work 6964.A rubber-streaked aperture opening in a blank surface, the year the site was opened, rendered with high clinical detail, print laid under glass for the gloss.Work 6829.An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame.Work 6575.A high contrast toy maker in the Art Deco years, mechanical vignetting, Polaroid SX-70.Work 6533.A loupe over a strip of negatives, slide projected on a wall, the negative has gone missing, headlights raking a field.Work 6174.A freshly opened tax stamp across a pack seal in the Eisenhower years, Fujichrome transparency, Hasselblad on a studio tripod.Work 5844.Black and white snapshot of a circled reel of 16mm film on a splicer, the late 1950s, mimeograph purple.Work 5775.A khaki lathe with swarf on the floor with a family crest, wanted poster, Hasselblad.Work 5659.A jumbo jet in a back garden and an explosion in a chemistry lab in an airlock, cutout silhouette photo.Work 5560.A damson microscope being auctioned, Virtual Boy red, ambrotype.Work 5379.Lest we forget: a locket on parole, Hi8 camcorder.Work 4958.A flip dot display and a pumping station in 1969, entomology specimen box.Work 4009.