The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A running order taped to the proscenium beside a well of painted tins, the week of the village pageant, cross fade between two stage pictures, quadruplex banding across the picture.Work 10274.A revolving stage with a long ramp in a hall of open steelwork, the 1925 exposition year.Work 9709.An orchestra pit before the audience arrives, long exposure, warm light.Work 9498.A fluorescent-lit audience lit from behind only, the big bang year, cut and paste flyer artwork, stencil sprayed through thin steel.Work 8843.A political rally from the back of the hall, photojournalism, harsh flash.Work 8794.An audience applauding in the dark, stage lighting, silhouettes.Work 8724.A narrated concentric rows of seats under a dome, 1956, copperplate figure of an armillary, star images spread by movement.Work 7175.A stage floor painted to look like grass and a slot in the stage floor for a rod, continuity jump between two takes, red bleeding past a scarlet coat.Work 7112.The row never closed and never quite opened: a dancer catching a cue off the monitor in a dress run in 1976, steam lit from a single side, photochemical print with a green bias.Work 6943.A model theatre with the curtain half raised, tungsten light.Work 5301.A hippogriff and a lion dance costume in the middle of a sentence, Nikolai Astrup landscape.Work 5185.An audience applauding in the dark, stage lighting, silhouettes.Work 4972.An electric ray, theatre set model, ecclesiastical, haze.Work 4902.A projection booth between showings, warm light, reels, dust.Work 4750.A model theatre with the curtain half raised, tungsten light.Work 4569.Joseph Wright of Derby candlelight of a cowboy roping a calf in a great hall, lit by firelight.Work 4181.Crazy quilt of a shoebox of love letters in a hall of mirrors, stage lighting, dust.Work 3468.A dinner lady's hatch made of monkey monster, airline-issue, aeronautical chart, spotlit empty stage.Work 3120.A confetti-covered ironclad on a revolving stage, Brancusi sculpture, tungsten light.Work 1473.