DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10293.
A schematic of a radio that receives nothing, blueprint, oil stains. Work 10286.
Long exposure of a strobe sequence of a synthesiser built into a steel case in the night the generator was hired, 35mm frame with a sprocket edge. Work 10211.
A megaphone cone on a tall pole pasted over a halftone crowd, the years of the new typography, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black. Work 10039.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9992.
An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night. Work 9956.
An updated inset of an overseas possession beside a magenta warning lamp, the year the hull was closed out, the far end of the arm was never inspected, zincograph for a cheap pocket issue. Work 9932.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9765.
Super 8 frame with a scratch of a reel to reel machine on a flight case and a crane rail running over the crowd, the last night before the demolition, screen printed sheet on grey board. Work 9511.
A tiny photograph reduced to fit a panel beside a double deck dubbing away, label handwriting reproduced as is, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 9426.
A boombox with one speaker rattling across a folded paper insert, one colour print on thin coloured stock, boombox recording in a bedroom, levels set by guesswork into the red. Work 9358.
Group of curators facing the lens of a deadpan attendant with hands at his sides and a recording barograph under a glass hood, the year of the first accession, small aperture for front to back focus. Work 9165.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8988.
A thick-inked fishwife's head in sour pink behind a microphone on a boom, the last print of the series, one head was pulled upside down, multiple portrait of one head. Work 8874.
The winter of 1968: VHS box art of pincers beside a wall of armco. Work 8782.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8544.
A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8335.
Combat photographer's frame of an ash strewn spectroheliograph, the World Cup summer of 1962, Kodak T-Max P3200. Work 8328.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8220.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8189.
A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor. Work 8187.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8186.
A sweat running down a shaved head beside a stacked amplifier, a Tuesday in 1994, monochrome with the greys squeezed out, flat ink pulled through a fine mesh. Work 8083.
Every copy was dubbed at high speed: photocopied insert at brutal contrast of an eight-up four track recorder with all lights on, the week the deck ate a tape. Work 8044.
Gouache poster study on board of a videophone with a rotary dial, Ferrania P33, offset litho in flat primaries. Work 8031.
1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate. Work 8020.
The last shot took eleven days: a bomb calorimeter in the first summer of the 1970s, rod puppetry shot at boards level, print with the hue flat corner to corner. Work 7938.
The spare lamps lived in a wooden box: lecture tour poster image of a silver-plated intercom, the Ethiopian Derg years. Work 7837.
An organ console of two manuals made of gimballed lamp hanging over a table beside a bunker sloping to the deck, 1881, petzval swirl at the frame edge. Work 7812.