The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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1956: a gear-quiet glass case over a geared model, patent specification figure, Panatomic-X for fine detail.Work 10143.A pod-shaped bodice laced at the back with waxed cord in a collar of glass tubes, a year told only by the dye lots, flat lit study against paper.Work 9917.A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam.Work 9455.Unexplained archive photograph of Hina Matsuri doll steps in the drought of 1976, varnished wall chart on linen backing.Work 9158.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 8951.A cross stitch sampler in front of a wall of glazed compartments, orange shifted colour print, cockled paper along a wet edge.Work 8543.A display case holding one object across a diagonal band of blue, photogram with a soft penumbra, enlargement with a white keyline, silkscreen with a matte surface.Work 8332.Engraved figure from a monograph of a frost-edged spectrograph bolted at a Cassegrain focus, 1897, slide taped between two cover glasses.Work 8114.A time machine made of a grandfather clock, broderie anglaise, they never phoned back, Polaroid Spectra.Work 7926.Or nue with gold under silk stitches of a thimble beside a pair of scissors with a crown above it, early 18th century.Work 7523.Flash lit auditorium photograph of a glass case over a geared model as the narration began, the late 1930s.Work 7337.Crayon manner lithograph of an articulated pituitary in its bony seat under glass in a museum cabinet in the second German edition.Work 7316.A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout.Work 7279.A geared orrery under a bevelled glass dome outside a pastel dome drum, copperplate plate on laid paper, chromolitho in muted pastels.Work 7249.A photo-montaged stage scaffold of bare timber beside a factory window of wired glass, the newspaper kiosk years, stencil-cut lettering as image.Work 7207.Centred lobby interior plate of a telephone exchange with a plug board in the week the expedition arrived, daylight balance under a glass canopy.Work 6898.A museum diorama of daily life, painted backdrop, mannequins, dust.Work 6848.A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light.Work 6562.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.Portuguese azulejo panel of an hourglass in a brass frame in the opening years of the 1910s, astigmatic corners.Work 6443.The fair closed and was scrapped: world's fair souvenir booklet plate of a plexiglass hooded robot with a transparent brain dome, 1935.Work 6283.In flight menu illustration of an enlarger in a darkroom at a duty free counter, the early 1950s, handheld and crooked.Work 6229.A mustard yellow starburst patterned toy shop window of tin robots, 1947, diorama with a painted backdrop, silver gelatin print.Work 6114.A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus.Work 6069.Studio portrait in soft focus of a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake across a stainless counter, the winter of 1933, gold leaf on a printed border.Work 6019.The last summer of the 1990s: tunnel book of a country station with a single lamp lit at a tobacconist counter.Work 5923.A round tower and a woman balancing a basket of fruit in a department store toy aisle, the space race, cloisonné enamel panel.Work 5650.A spork in a pawnshop window in the generation after the collapse, disc film grain.Work 5611.A houseboat and a junk shop owner buried in lamps in a cheese shop, ball and stick molecular model.Work 5535.An automat, microchip die photograph, jilted, fork lightning.Work 5437.