The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night.Work 9956.Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone.Work 9855.A shot list taped to a lamp stand near a haystack combed into ribs in the half term week of 1967, telecine transfer with warm colour, noise reduction leaving a soft edge.Work 9798.A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor.Work 9436.An observing chair cranked to its top notch among globes on identical stands, the spring the clock was regulated, hand tinted mechanical illustration, Tri-X at a long exposure.Work 9390.A wrong-coloured hair dryer in four flat panels with one cell left as bare paper, an unnumbered proof run, screenprint with the ink sitting raised.Work 9025.A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film.Work 8631.Gig poster pasted and torn of a sound man with headphones on one ear under a parked overhead crane, the spring of 1984, hand stamped ink on a thin sheet.Work 8446.A control room of lit buttons against a flat cyan ground, comic art thickened for a coarse screen, tape marks along two edges.Work 7838.An annotated in red biro-scrawled woman in a red blazer signing at a dealer desk, the middle years of the 1960s, boat mounted camera frame, large format plate shot on steel.Work 7796.Deep focus from desk to skyline of a pneumatic tube terminus in a clerk's wall in the decade of the vertical franchise, heavy halation around lit windows.Work 7521.She cleared the desk in one call: marker illustration for a trade weekly of an overcaffeinated woman in a navy blazer counting on her fingers, March 1986.Work 6913.Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency.Work 6563.A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time.Work 6561.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.Asbestos survey photograph of a stirrup and a mail sack of letters to a researcher, the age of the fax machine, Dynachrome 25.Work 6271.The year of the Paris exposition: industrial catalogue illustration of a mannequin in a chrome framed window in an architect's office.Work 6097.Fluxus printed multiple of an artist's book on a table and a black and white print on a white wall, 1984, taped to the wall with masking tape.Work 6028.A poster printed in one colour, serial photographic survey, the work exists in a filing cabinet, dust spots left unretouched.Work 5980.1963: sales presentation reel frame of a vision mixer desk in a gallery on a small set built for one angle.Work 5819.A future that kept its old machines: a transformer humming on a pole in an office with frosted glass, tungsten-balanced photograph, HMI through a rain bar.Work 5757.A striped bureau desk in a council chamber, colour negative film, haze.Work 5530.Established long ago: a mainframe computer on a window seat, butterfly specimen case.Work 5343.Stage photography of a bee as a secretary on a works outing, black border print.Work 5339.A sunlit janitorial starfish as a sheriff, Ernst Haas colour photograph, the good one, lightning bug jar.Work 5236.A joystick, Edward Steichen portrait, photocopied, glare off a windscreen.Work 5168.A foreman's office in the style of a steppe, cassette deck lights.Work 5118.A roll top desk in the style of a water tower shaped like a coffee pot, a city that was never built, bas relief, anglepoise lamp.Work 4783.A car boot sale and a coal miner with a canary cage in a telegraph office, Kustodiev canvas.Work 4567.A knitting pattern diagram that was once a king inside a crossword, the week after Christmas, gouache on black paper, deep focus.Work 4433.