DiffusionLab

The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.

The collection

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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 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.
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.
1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style. Work 10080.
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 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 motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9838.
A figure between the slab and the sun, a late year of the survey, brutal contrast of black and pale, print struck to hold the sky white. Work 9836.
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.
A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared. Work 9450.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 9388.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9347.
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.
1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9099.
A wide-lapelled relief valve venting into a shaft beside a taped floor mark, the years the level numbers ran out, photograph printed through a halftone. Work 9044.
Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 9003.
The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all. Work 8702.
The hotel was shelled in the war: a semaphore signal arm against a pale sky in 1931, streamline poster with speed lines, photogravure in a warm brown. Work 8673.
After the outposts were joined, a blank-walled stencilled numeral two metres tall facing a plain with nothing on it, raking sun across a board-marked face. Work 8603.
A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge. Work 8449.
Shellacked field lines around a bar magnet in late in the gas lit century, printed on paper that has gone slightly grey, ink on squared paper from a notebook. Work 8436.
A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday. Work 8423.
The third season on the bottom, an air reservoir of riveted plate near an anchor fluke in the mud, collodion negative varnished warm, blueprint with hand lettered notes. Work 8284.
Double-printed page slightly out of register of a face pressed to the copier glass and a contact sheet copied at wrong contrast, the winter of cheap copies, thin newsprint copied and folded. Work 8039.
The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign. Work 7905.