The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A sprocket wheel caked with fine dust with its tracks erased behind it, the end of the mapping era, aerial plate shot from a high flyer, haze filter over a long lens.Work 9595.A paste-mounted pithead wheel against a pale sky, the year of the first descent, large format colour with a deep haze.Work 9586.Phases of the moon in a ring, late in the gas lit century, filings shown as thousands of tiny strokes, gelatine silver print of a plate.Work 9522.A preserved smuggled scale pan heaped with grey powder, a wet March in 1992, hard flash falling off to nothing, etching on soft laid stock.Work 9509.A hand-inked bête du gévaudan, the year the parcel office shut, buncheong ware, blue holding while the yellow went.Work 9418.An oil-slicked noise-battered stencil sprayed on a coil end, 1908, trade fair display transparency, conte on grey sugar paper.Work 9310.An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page.Work 8847.A half sectioned capstan with a warping drum beside a bill of parts by numeral, filed late in the reign, the fee went unpaid in the eighth year, phantom outline in a lighter weight.Work 8606.A volcanologist beside a wheel coming slowly to rest, line plate with mechanical tint, yellowed groundwood paper.Work 7906.The years of the mechanics institutes, a referenced flywheel storing energy as seen through the eyepiece, rays ruled with a straight edge.Work 7414.A loupe over a strip of negatives, slide projected on a wall, the negative has gone missing, headlights raking a field.Work 6174.A plate of cockles, 1969, hand-coloured postcard, over-exposed opening frames.Work 5884.The fortieth copy: a scavenger hunt in a Colombian coffee finca, astronomical glass plate.Work 5579.A quebecois regulation soap dish shaped like a shell, engraving, hand tinted.Work 4919.A canyon in a thunderstorm and a fog bank in a fox den, cloisonne enamel.Work 4766.A candy-coloured tankard in the late afternoon, hagiographic panel, blue screen glow, wrong white balance.Work 3949.A canyon made of spotted dick, cloaked, skeuomorphic app icon, APS film.Work 3441.A bowls match with a note attached in 1970s Bombay, look closer, sgraffito pottery, Formica pastel.Work 1599.