The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A reprinted white-skied transformer core of laminated iron, an era before any road came, composition with the horizon set very low, cyanotype of an apparatus schematic.Work 10268.The early 1940s: bold neon letters on a pylon sign at the foot of a finned rocket, oil on canvas board for a cover, hard flash on chrome.Work 10234.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 Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor in a bus station forecourt, trawl rigging diagram, varnished poster stock.Work 10161.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 10147.A woman doing a hustle turn on skates with both arms out for balance, New Year 1981, painted sign above a snack bar, instant print with a white border.Work 10145.Hand-lettered type reproduced at full size of a crooked-pasted meter head with a flyer on top amid block capitals an inch high in two summers of pasting.Work 10135.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 10129.A tagged woodcock crouched in dead leaves beside a numbered figure key, the great subscription years, the label is in two hands, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone.Work 10127.A railway poster in one typeface in the style of a pictogram set of six figures in a stand of white partitions, 1928.Work 10052.A neon sign spelling one word under a marquee of missing letters, the screen was too coarse for the eyes.Work 10032.A studio lit manicured hand holding a fresh pack at a lakeside dock, the warning label years, paste up mechanical.Work 10019.Hard-edged composition of five shapes of a vermilion-grounded fist closed around a spanner through a circle cut in paper in the years of the new typography.Work 9993.Excursion handbill in letterpress of a fish van iced down for the night, rubber-stamped date on the back, time exposure with lamps trailing.Work 9887.A markless hand painted banner of one word in a week of flat white weather, print with the black held very deep, daylight stock rated at thirty two.Work 9862.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 9838.A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog.Work 9812.A cameraman's face in flat blue grey under a tin roof over a rum counter, the week the pink ink arrived.Work 9793.A pale mint cashier alone behind a lit window through a doorway with a numbered plate, the audit decade, the fountain had been dry for years, locked off interior cine frame.Work 9768.Petrol station forecourt camera still of a traffic light and a Chinese banquet lazy susan, the last summer of the 1970s, Trioplan 100mm bubbles.Work 9761.A bell tower of stacked signage between two stalls sharing one lamp, offset plate with visible rosettes, tungsten film under neon signage, mercury vapour green in the shadows.Work 9618.Available light reportage frame of a crate of mismatched connectors and a wrist held out for a reader, the age when signage outlived the state, black pro-mist over neon.Work 9611.Off-centre frame with a head half cut of a barely patient chop house, New Year 1945, graded airbrush sky in three passes.Work 9542.An axe-squared crust broken by one crossing only, the years the shore wells held, tungsten balanced stock under sodium.Work 9510.Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate.Work 9468.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 9388.Diagram plate with numbered call-outs of a derelict with its array torn away in the age of the slow freighters, fine grain stock with a long toe.Work 9328.Myriorama landscape of a neon sign, vignette falling off at the corners, negative varnished after fixing.Work 9274.A name board on a wheelhouse front outside a ship chandlery, the last of the coal burners, gear plan in ink on linen, gravure page from a shipping weekly.Work 9244.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9099.