The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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 setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge.Work 10041.The subject was changed: hand painted bus livery of a Dralon chirashi bowl, glasnost.Work 9928.A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow.Work 9820.A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944.Work 9602.Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range.Work 9319.A traveller drifting with the head thrown back made of figure with light passing through the helmet in the shadow of the pylon, the long luminous interval, large plate scanned at full chroma.Work 9039.The tea can boiled on the way out: a tank engine in faded oxblood livery in an unrecorded season, centred locomotive elevation, shift lens holding a signal upright.Work 8864.The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all.Work 8702.A smoke-veiled speaker flown from a chain hoist above the deck on a top rail, two days before the doors opened, the frame outlasted the building, sleeve front with a steel frame photograph.Work 8643.Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page.Work 8533.A figure with its face weathered to nothing beside a bridge chapel over a pier, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, print held back in the lit stone.Work 8511.Shellacked field lines around a bar magnet in late in the gas lit century, printed on paper that has gone slightly grey, ink on squared paper from a notebook.Work 8436.Low horizon under an enormous pylon of a straight-running yesterday's show still pasted up past a pole furred with staple stubs in an age of hands and rollers.Work 7586.The first ten minutes of daylight, a raffle ticket book printed off the crop against a sky in flat bands, rescreened from an already printed page, ghost image below the sun.Work 7454.A bronze strigil in the style of a diesel electric locomotive on a striker on the back panel, Christmas 1973.Work 7449.A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading.Work 6774.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.A traffic signal swinging on a wire under a shrine box on a wall in the decade after the blackout, hard backlight through haze.Work 6433.A ventilation fan behind a grille photographed as a laundry line strung between towers, wire service photograph, printed dark for reproduction.Work 6120.A grease pencil crop marks on an overlay on a commuter platform at dusk, chromalin proof, key light with a silver fill.Work 5683.A treadle sewing machine piled to the ceiling on a suspension bridge cable, heat lightning with no thunder, hand coloured film frame, silhouettes.Work 5265.A cable car climbing into cloud, kodachrome, grain, cold light.Work 5226.A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared.Work 4735.Palette knife painting of a kite tangled in a power line in an atmospheric river, nightfall.Work 4685.A trolleybus made of curling stone, backroom, tilt shift, crepuscular rays.Work 4625.An uncharted abacus disguised as a lamp post, oil pastel scribble, dead pixels.Work 4088.A cable car climbing into cloud, Lomo LC-A snapshot, fire engine red, raindrops on the lens.Work 3545.A power line down in a storm, 35mm, f1.8.Work 3544.