The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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No vacancies: airbrushed poster art of a synthetic gutter running with neon colour, a future built over an older one.Work 10272.A stall built into a service alcove beside a conduit breathing steam, the long tenancy of the warm tunnels.Work 10106.A shadow of a ring across its own spoke photographed as a dry bay with a hull opened up, press agency shot of a press hall, no fill and no reflector at all.Work 8976.The century the pumps never stopped, a low-ceilinged kettle set on a hot pipe deep below the street, painted plate of an underground city.Work 8975.The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit.Work 8570.A paired sight glass with a red float inside set exactly on the centreline, the winter of the deep station, architectural interior study.Work 8379.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 8185.A boatman looking up into the vault, an age of quiet under a broken dome, deep atmospheric perspective bay by bay, photogravure with a deep vault black.Work 8081.A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres.Work 8064.Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light.Work 7709.Wide angle in a confined space of a freight rail line under the city down a shaft with the treads removed, the decade of the night crews, macro on rust and condensate.Work 7647.The middle 1960s: photostat lettering on a pasted panel of a subway train leaving the rails on a lunar crater rim.Work 7510.Disposable camera flash at close range of a thin-aired prism train inside a spectrograph, an August with no fan, monochrome print at postcard size.Work 7418.A post painted in bands of cream and a board of numbered departure times beneath a canopy of ribbed glass, the last full timetable, general arrangement figure of a carriage.Work 7353.A matched workshop bench under a haze filled window beside a shadow of a train thrown long, the years of three engines, gold bronze ink over a flat field.Work 7214.Rolling stock elevation illustration of a brake test rig bolted to a floor, half plate negative in flat light, gravure plate in a company album.Work 7163.70mm widescreen film still of a crew member with the helmet on and nobody near underneath a lit white walkway, the fourth crew rotation, sharp corner-to-corner resolution.Work 6847.Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print.Work 6821.A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement.Work 6500.A ranger station notice board in the style of a scrap of foil in a shoebox in a diner booth, 1987.Work 6352.A pier arcade at midday outside an amusement arcade in 1977, British Railways poster, shot against the light.Work 6344.A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key.Work 6335.The year the river was roofed over: optical composite frame of a pachinko player in a smoke haze under a vaulted concrete ramp.Work 6275.Symmetrical static composition of an unexplained window of a moving train, 1975, Technicolor dye transfer print.Work 6167.A streamlined bus station forecourt on a dance floor in the summer of 1937, etched glass panel, theatrical footlights from below.Work 6119.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.A thin shell concrete roof and a subway station with a vaulted hall under a bridge deck, the reconstruction years, measured elevation in ink.Work 6024.The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade.Work 5997.A movie poster for a film about a train, motion streaks, deep perspective.Work 5932.An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down.Work 5915.