The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The last engine in steam: a gauge glass wiped with a thumb below a numbered warning post, volumetric dust haze study, hand tinted print in thin washes.Work 10186.A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s.Work 10184.An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours.Work 9845.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.A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone.Work 9044.The black plate was left in a cupboard: a robot octopus repairing a submarine in the first winter of the 1940s, grey scale test exposure, cine frame enlarged past its grain.Work 8879.Miners gala souvenir print of a downcast shaft in cold air under a chimney by the boiler house, the last year of hand hewing, ferrotyped gloss print.Work 8730.1887: large format with tilt corrected verticals of a pair of matched viewports facing black water against a wall of coded pipework.Work 8440.A sulphur-toned rust-hazed pressure gauge in a brass case on a wall, the survey years, atmospheric wide shot with a small figure, slow film at a small aperture.Work 8431.A perfectly centred engine room of matched twin cylinders in a crew mess between two benches, the last inspection, the searchlight found nothing that night, interior with three planes of depth.Work 8235.A grime-slick vent throwing steam across the crowd corrected to the latest survey, the age when signage outlived the state, hyper-detailed technical illustration.Work 7376.A winch drum paying out armoured cable and a sediment trap cone on a mooring, echo sounder trace facsimile, green tinge of natural light at depth.Work 6816.A Marenghi organ front against a black sky, 1950, vernacular photograph, magicube flash.Work 6214.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A pipeline running across the pan at the edge of a dust storm, a century from now, editorial illustration, telephoto compression of a convoy.Work 5781.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 5225.Siqueiros mural of an early robot at Easter in a chocolate factory, every hair visible.Work 4509.A draisine, pinhole photograph, lathe-turned, title safe framing.Work 4018.A pipe organ's bellows and levers, available light, wood and leather.Work 3537.A pneumatic tube system, panorama painting, muslin, radar screen glow.Work 3372.A bogeyman made of new wave nerd, film still, National Geographic.Work 3162.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 2688.A pipe organ's bellows and levers, available light, wood and leather.Work 2067.Industrial age, rendered by octane engine, esty.Work 1853.Industrial age, colorful, 1990s.Work 910.Antique vintage postcard of a Leprechaun, art print, realistic highly detailed, 8k post-processing highly detailed, rendered by octane engine, esty.Work 491.A detailed portrait of Joseph Stalin with a blue mohawk, punk rock, oil painting, muted colours, soft lighting.Work 428.