The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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Easter 1972: a ripple-floored Icelandic chicken, stipple engraving of a specimen, transparency lit on a bench.Work 9547.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.A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper.Work 9075.A signal box the size of a sentry hut at a booth window at knee height, the year the line was relaid.Work 8392.The badge opened one door too many: planning model photograph of a two up two down missile silo with its lid open, the closing years of the 1870s.Work 8333.A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket.Work 7631.A water tower above a packing shed made of bell buoy in a harbour mouth in a stack of unused labels, the middle 1930s, guillotine trim through the keyline.Work 7115.Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency.Work 7067.A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 5881.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.Sponsored by the tide: an air pump at a garage at matins, Bocklin island painting.Work 5656.A prairie made of photo booth repairman, roman, Kay Sage canvas, glossy paper.Work 5378.An antique raku temple bell, Kittelsen troll painting, nothing to see here, bedsheet backdrop.Work 4768.A park keeper's hut, xieyi ink painting, filing cabinet grey, snowmobile headlight.Work 4562.A signalling engineer in a lineside hut, Gothic Revival design, gap-toothed, head torch.Work 3212.A weighbridge with nothing on it and a crescent moon in a summer house, junk sculpture.Work 2468.A cypress made of porridge in a wendy house, where the sea used to be, pastel on sandpaper, snooker table lamp.Work 1935.A border guard in a striped hut made of cake decorator, absinthe green, MS Paint, moon glade on water.Work 1661.A pigeon grey grumpy ticket barrier in a meadow, Ben Nicholson relief, the ache of a cold radiator, CRT glow.Work 1359.