The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The reconstruction years, a quarter circle swung from a corner inside a die-cut circle, north light through a clerestory, type impressed into soft paper.Work 10265.A mirror ball lowered over the risers on a terrace above the grid, Plus-X under hot lamps, Agfachrome 100 transparency, pushed stock with visible grain.Work 10131.Glass gilding panel of a damp smelling post war family saloon, the last summer of the 1980s, release print timed dark.Work 10119.The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar.Work 9879.The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks.Work 9253.A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner.Work 8749.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 8740.Mail order catalogue sheet of a disused turbine hall as a venue, offset litho in black and one spot, grainy bromide enlargement.Work 8581.A sauna cabin at the mouth of the nest hole, the first year of the tram, Admiralty chart, daylight from twelve small panes.Work 8566.A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310.Work 8432.A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart.Work 8326.The years of the survey, a cicada noise in a stone corridor below a collapsed roof, haze held in the beam by a fan, arc lamp through a doorway.Work 8252.The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term.Work 8021.Dome rollers on a circular track in a mirror cell, lantern slide for a public lecture, fiducial marks in the corners.Work 7918.A mezzanine gallery ringing an empty void in a gallery overlooking nothing in the last full staffing, fine grain film at a small aperture.Work 7917.A canopy of ribbed glass over a platform under a mirror angled at a platform, heavy outline with a fine interior line, rag paper with a visible watermark.Work 7910.Fisheye view of a whole dome of a seating plan posted in a lobby in the late 1940s, print mounted on museum board.Work 7595.The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected.Work 7576.A triple tail fin above a silver wing, archaeological survey photograph, the dome went dark and the room hushed, sand highlight clipped to white.Work 7541.A foil-wrapped beetle-green corridor with handrails on both sides, a decade lit by shop windows, blueprint plate in white on blue, studio strobe through a small reflector.Work 7504.A ballast bag slung between two frames behind a band of curved glass, architectural perspective of an interior, letterpress with a tissue overlay.Work 7489.Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall.Work 7473.Measured section through an atrium of a quietly absurd sunlight bars crossing an empty concourse, the polished years, grain visible in the pale grey.Work 7135.The night after the roof let in rain, a beam-cut turbine bed with the machine gone with the strobe at full rate, strobe lit frame with frozen motion.Work 7093.The third generation of shareholders: a trading floor with every terminal lit within a stair core without windows, top light in a vast interior, two second exposure at a window.Work 6975.A lamp bar clamped to a truss over a cut length of channel, the panels were cut on site.Work 6884.Construction photograph of a dome shell of an orbital diagram painted on a panel, scan lines across a dome image, points of light slightly out of round.Work 6854.A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph.Work 6803.A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery.Work 6654.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.