The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock.Work 10161.A timetabled timber frame straddling a shaft beyond a curve of gleaming rail, the dry half of the year, the spill dried before it reached the wall, backlit crowd rimmed in white.Work 8727.Modeller's prototype reference photograph of a humping engine at the top of the hump at a shed office door, colour print gone magenta, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400.Work 8208.A trackside hut of mint boards, flat even light with no sun, the timetable ran on two trains a day, hand tinted print in thin washes.Work 8200.He hit the mark with the beat: a low rail padded in buttoned leather in the year the gantry was built, volumetric beams through a hangar haze, bounce flash off a white flat.Work 8093.A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres.Work 8064.The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens.Work 7755.The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages.Work 7539.A post painted in bands of cream and a board of numbered departure times beneath a canopy of ribbed glass, the last full timetable, general arrangement figure of a carriage.Work 7353.A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work.Work 7024.A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate.Work 6354.A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light.Work 6107.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.1970, a departing level crossing barrier down reflected in a dark window, long lens frame from across a street.Work 5824.The early 1980s, a 99 flake in a cone at Brighton, dust in the gate, Agfachrome 40.Work 5768.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 model railway town at night, tilt shift, warm windows.Work 5391.An automaton maker winding a clockwork bird made of toy train set, suburban, nature cam livestream, anamorphic squeeze.Work 5148.An out-of-town border guard in a striped hut with no purpose, railway poster, boxing ring lights.Work 4642.A bluebottle and a model railway exhibition in a meat market, redscale film.Work 3456.The map ends here: an engine shed in the jet age, Streamline Moderne mural.Work 3405.Commuters on a platform in the rain, kodachrome, umbrellas, 1974.Work 2843.A sacrificial underground station tiled tunnel on a plinth, pronkstilleven, screenprint misprint.Work 2808.Commuters on a platform in the rain, kodachrome, umbrellas, 1974.Work 1852.