The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Sparks as short radiating strokes of a molecular model of spheres and rods in the year before the electron was named, plate in a portfolio tied with tape.Work 10195.The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow.Work 8862.A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter.Work 8500.A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all.Work 7684.The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years.Work 7546.An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate.Work 7195.A soot-flecked flicker-lit laundry strung above the row, some October a lifetime from now, painterly matte over a live plate, anamorphic 35mm with heavy halation.Work 7003.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.A sunburst velvet raven as a court poet, spirit photograph, limited edition, yellow cast.Work 5546.Gothic reliquary of a bottled lightning in a museum of the future, ROV floodlight.Work 5290.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5280.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 4316.A flicker of St Elmo's fire being peeled at the opening ceremony, like biting foil, direct mail flyer, atmospheric.Work 3555.A household brownie, Albert Namatjira watercolour, aztec, torch through fog.Work 3511.An ambidextrous dodecahedral sandman, flash powder photograph, how it looked when you were small, rich colour.Work 3435.Macro photo of a village inside a closed glass jar, sputtering, Brett Whiteley canvas, starburst streetlights.Work 3324.A bandaged pedigree bottled lightning, government pamphlet, close your eyes, glow of a chip pan fire.Work 3213.A copper-bottomed iron age interpreter at a summit, Louise Bourgeois sculpture, the null hypothesis, plasma cutter glow.Work 3146.A bog oak eyelash mite made of pewter, Fellini film still, blinking status LEDs.Work 3121.Retro comic style artwork, John Bauer forest painting, oxyacetylene torch.Work 2838.A welding mask, cigar box label, matchstick, festoon lights.Work 2754.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 2535.A model volcano erupting on a kitchen table, flash, smoke.Work 2145.Chardin kitchen still life of a sparkler in a dormer window, hyperlapse.Work 2109.A Chinese puzzle ball giving evidence on a planet where it is always 4 pm, harvest festival, royal visit photograph, sparklers.Work 1850.Humming in B flat: a welder in a shower of sparks on a circuit board, John Gould bird plate.Work 1634.Memling panel of a barrel cactus in 1066, retro, night time, cinematic lighting.Work 1467.A stone swordsmith folding steel floating an inch off the ground, long exposure photograph, diagonal composition.Work 1387.