DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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No vacancies: airbrushed poster art of a synthetic gutter running with neon colour, a future built over an older one. Work 10272.
The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome. Work 10234.
A signboard giving a town elevation after the spur was lifted, the period the lights were never off, watercolour of a country siding, nitrate sheet film. Work 10191.
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 diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection. Work 10147.
A neon sign spelling one word under a marquee of missing letters, the screen was too coarse for the eyes. Work 10032.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.
A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog. Work 9812.
Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles. Work 9761.
A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows. Work 9618.
Available light reportage frame of a crate of mismatched connectors and a wrist held out for a reader, the age when signage outlived the state, black pro-mist over neon. Work 9611.
High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer. Work 9494.
A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam. Work 9455.
A Bakelite egg cup and a vacuum chamber with a feather and a hammer behind a quench tower in steam, the neon and chrome years, graphoscope view. Work 9300.
Myriorama landscape of a neon sign, vignette falling off at the corners, negative varnished after fixing. Work 9274.
Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture. Work 9036.
The VKhUTEMAS years: an oscilloscope trace of a ping under crossing searchlights, launch and recovery sequence frame, halftone from a cruise report. Work 8860.
Swimwear catalogue page in flat light of a man in a cream fedora under a neon sign up against a support post, the winter of 1993, halftone of a flash print on newsprint. Work 8790.
A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 8588.
A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel. Work 8485.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 8423.
A reprint nobody asked for: a neon sign spelling one word on a newsprint page gone tan, romance comic panel art in flat ink, overprint making a muddy orange. Work 8403.
A mortified contrail shadow in the Lebanese golden age, Rodenstock Imagon, neon sign light. Work 8343.
Reflection-heavy street composition of a neon-washed rickshaw cyclist standing on the pedals, well after the last clear summer, tungsten film under neon signage. Work 8336.
Day-glo lettering over a night sky of a twin-cam wind machine lifting nine capes, a session in 1975, spot gloss varnish on a logo. Work 8181.
The year the smog line rose again: model tower lit with fibre optics of a flyer climbing between two towers among aisles of indicator lights. Work 8158.
Neon sign design sketch of a man in a mirrored waistcoat clapping overhead, motion blur under a hard flash, HP5 developed hot. Work 8062.
The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film. Work 7999.
The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.
A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night. Work 7878.