DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation. Work 10296.
A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration. Work 10282.
A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985. Work 10258.
Two man saw up welded mesh steps, video frame off a tube with banding, slit-scan optical printer pass, pinhole in the middle of a flat. Work 10236.
A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody. Work 10232.
A courier riding a straight road at dawn, the long flood age, monumental emptiness on a paved road, orthochromatic plate with a deep filter. Work 10231.
Tournament programme colour plate of a lemon-yellow man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, the first week of the club season, polarising filter on a deep blue sky. Work 10230.
A man slumped over a steering wheel and a hitchhiker in heels beside a coupe on a roadhouse dance floor, a wet March in 1951, flat colour poster style plate. Work 10225.
A diorama of a moon landing made of foil, flash photography, shadows. Work 10205.
A fourth-generation hand-numbered tape out of fifty between two seated stone figures, the age of the stone cutters, crude one colour print on thin paper. Work 10193.
A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s. Work 10184.
A far wall lost in interior mist made of line of figures facing each other beside a silt shelf against a base, the first crossing by boat, exposed for the shadow under the vault. Work 10181.
The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945. Work 10175.
It smelled of cigarettes: gouache illustration on board of a riveted man in mirrored sunglasses indoors, the disco backlash. Work 10156.
A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper. Work 10154.
A figure standing perfectly upright in the dust and an observer facing the slab for the whole shift, long lens across a flat pit floor, wide gauge print with the black held flat. Work 10148.
A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy. Work 10117.
A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924. Work 10112.
A policeman's head in process cyan against a flat turquoise backdrop, cheap process print on a folded sheet, copy shot slightly off square, gloss sleeve reflecting a strip light. Work 10096.
1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge. Work 10017.
A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud. Work 10015.
Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure. Work 10005.
A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper. Work 9972.
The winter of 1915, a wind-packed plateau surface furrowed with sastrugi on the ninth day out, ration list page. Work 9971.
An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box. Work 9940.
A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned. Work 9938.
The motion was carried: a busker's dog owner in the VHS era, papyrotomia paper cutting, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 9929.
Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen. Work 9926.
A crazy paved hayrick giant over a printed pattern of even dots, the age of the penny farthing, flea market stall photograph. Work 9909.
The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots. Work 9901.