DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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A tank turret swinging at the reader printed at twice the intended size, the year the dots got bigger, dot pattern standing in for shading, trim cut through a colour bar. Work 10245.
A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred. Work 10244.
A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate. Work 10242.
1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator. Work 10194.
A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s. Work 10184.
Science fiction production illustration of a batching plant with four silos among unfinished floor plates, after the concrete plant closed, polariser cutting glare off concrete. Work 10128.
Sky heavy widescreen frame of a drum of diesel with a hand pump, bounced light off white canvas, long lens with heavy compression. Work 10034.
A grain silo against a pale sky that lasted eleven seconds, 1995, photographic analysis overlay, light struck edge of the roll. Work 9991.
A rain tank with a padlocked tap at a fuel dump out on the pan, the third year without rain, time-lapse frame, rack focus through the dust. Work 9987.
The year the hull was silvered, a speaking tube with a whistle plug through an air lock into a smoking room, stereo pair on one mount, magic lantern slide hand coloured. Work 9973.
The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade. Work 9959.
The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9945.
The platform sole years, a robot made of radio parts under the wing of a stopped flyer, hand-held wobble, print with the steam held grey. Work 9937.
A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster. Work 9892.
A concrete terminal silo bank at a sampling bench, grain company annual report photograph, blueprint line and wash. Work 9783.
A tank on a plinth covered in flowers, glasnost, fire damage assessment photograph, four colour process misregistration. Work 9773.
Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9722.
Cinematic vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, archival footage, damaged Kodachrome. Work 9695.
Film grain damaged footage of vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, damaged Kodachrome, vintage photography, 1950s, damaged film, light leak, found footage. Work 9694.
The beacon had been moved: hyperreal render with dust in the air of a dust-scoured engine nacelle lying alone on the sand, the century of the crawlers. Work 9670.
A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss. Work 9462.
A timber-jettied 0-6-0 tank engine simmering at the edge of a dry lake, the front half of the 1960s, the gate was always open, Bertillon anthropometric plate. Work 9453.
Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash. Work 9448.
The smoke would not leave the gallery: a bathing tank cut from one stone in the years the towers stood empty, film still from a temple sequence, lens misted by standing humidity. Work 9411.
Silhouette against a bleached sky of an immeasurable tape run out along a base, fifty generations of looking, inkjet on a heavy smooth rag. Work 9408.
A self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative. Work 9363.
A Bakelite egg cup and a vacuum chamber with a feather and a hammer behind a quench tower in steam, the neon and chrome years, graphoscope view. Work 9300.
The last edition before quantum theory: severe clarity with nothing decorative of a distillation apparatus with a condenser beside a key lettered a to h. Work 9194.
A sun-backed missile silo, the pedestrian precinct years, Polapan 100. Work 9053.
A steam log hauler on a snow road among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1915, forest service inspection photograph, gelatin dry plate enlargement. Work 8958.