The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy.Work 10117.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9394.A silver service on white linen in front of a pipe organ, rows receding to a single point, albumen print from a glass negative.Work 8819.A drum of diesel with a hand pump backed by a sun filling the frame, the slow years of the river trade, bleach bypass colour still, soft focus filter over the lens.Work 8599.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.A bassist with a thumb on the low string, poster paint illustration in flat colour, she picked the gowns herself, faded Ektacolor gone warm.Work 8111.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 7999.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 7761.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7570.Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years.Work 7439.A shamisen player tuning a string under a moon of bare paper, 1788, oban upright composition, overprinted green from two blocks.Work 7401.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 7333.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7321.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7285.A heat-cracked bass player nodding at the floor manager beside a tray of glitter and sponges on a stool, the last season on tape, woodcut illustration of a harvest.Work 7111.The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box.Work 7016.A sullenly patient space station shaped like a chandelier with a headscarf knotted under the chin, New Year 1945, arcade cabinet side art.Work 6373.An organ player on a jingle session and a razor pulled through shaving foam, network feed frame, varnished poster stock.Work 6322.A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame.Work 6210.A band on a small stage, watercolour of a country house, the band played until four, Pictorialist soft focus.Work 6127.A raven as a court poet made of saxophone, fogged-up, fresco secco, lossless.Work 5472.A piano being lifted through a window, black and white, 35mm, crowd below.Work 5386.Kept on file indefinitely: a bog snorkeller in the Gilded Age, technicolor musical.Work 5230.Space Invaders screen of a jazz age trumpeter in a school playground, infinity mirror.Work 5129.A bouzouki as a duke at Lag BaOmer, for my mother, Parmigianino portrait, ordered dithering.Work 4905.A congregation standing to sing, Harnett trompe l'oeil still life, cropped at the head, tax office gloom.Work 4447.An unexcavated indigo cat show, UPA cartoon, a lullaby for machines, varnish gleam.Work 4346.A babylonian swampy locksmith picking a lock, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 4191.A wee amusement arcade at the end of summer, snowflake photomicrograph, exhaust fumes.Work 4106.A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments.Work 3935.