DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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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 hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint. Work 10129.
Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw. Work 10057.
Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age. Work 9957.
A felt beetle with cellophane wings beside a papier mache hill in the second series of 1969, poster paint reading hot in the frame. Work 9861.
A pale mint cashier alone behind a lit window through a doorway with a numbered plate, the audit decade, the fountain had been dry for years, locked off interior cine frame. Work 9768.
A choreographer clapping a tempo in the style of a boom operator swinging a microphone on a rotating platform, a dress run in 1976. Work 9299.
An adobe-walled hybrid airship, the Maya classic period, Coptic icon panel, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 9265.
A flamingo chick in grey fluff at anchor off a green headland, hand coloured print, cobalt blue sunk into the glaze. Work 9232.
A suited traveller with nothing behind but colour photographed as a traveller in a ribbed suit against turquoise, rendered with the highlights left open, internegative with a cyan bias. Work 9029.
2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development. Work 8944.
Poster illustration in candy colours of beach-ready two men in pastel shirts hauling a marlin, summer 1985, dye sublimation print in high gloss. Work 8855.
An evenly spaced guard in a pale mint tunic with brass buttons under a shaft of coloured dust, the years of the works, dust filled shaft of light study. Work 8799.
The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan. Work 8750.
A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.
A mounted on velvet doorway with a slab door standing open at the centre of a long bench, the years the works ran on, the numbers on the blocks skipped one, hand tinted plate in mint and pink. Work 8609.
The spring of 1984, an oscillator bank with a lamp on top under a swung lamp bar, Ektachrome with cyan in the shadows, internegative printed a grade up. Work 8520.
Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 8335.
A glue-stained motor scooter with a windscreen under glassine in an album, 1930, export label with bilingual type. Work 8286.
A souvenir view rack by a revolving door made of entrance canopy with a scalloped edge off a landing of mint painted doors, the spring the facade was repainted, grain in the shadow under a stair. Work 8218.
A cable of a suspended light fitting with the ballast already released, a year with no report, mirror symmetry across a marble hall, duotone in grey and mint. Work 8207.
A vast wall corner meeting a haze horizon within a trench of teal light, an unnumbered year, the floodlight was on at midday, poster style flat elevation. Work 7896.
A man in a mint suit holding a marina key in the style of a woman in an electric pink jacket on a jet ski on a boardwalk lined with skaters, late in the eighties. Work 7781.
Pastel chalk illustration on tinted paper of a woman in a turquoise sash cutting a boat ribbon with a marina full of masts behind, the hottest week of 1987. Work 7757.
A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage. Work 7648.
A smeared boot repair sign printed off line, a cut-price reprint, scratch across the cyan plate. Work 7495.
The season every herd came at once: press photograph of a recovery of a radio room with a key and headphones at a darkroom sink at sea. Work 7407.
A halted woman in a headscarf packing a wardrobe trunk, the back shift in midwinter, 35mm frame cropped square. Work 7315.
Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7104.
Background of scrolling seaweed leaf of a trunk pale enough to read as stone over a low garden wall, the Utility furniture years, dub made from a dubbed cassette. Work 7053.