The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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.Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930.Work 9990.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.An exhaust valve rimmed with copper through a haze of raised silt, contact print on salted stock, sepia wash on laid paper, chromolithograph in seven colours.Work 9845.A heliometer objective split in two, sunspot projection sketch, she bought it in the brochure colour, ink plot on graph paper.Work 9831.A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end.Work 9797.A flat-printed wheatstone bridge with a slide wire beside a stand holding the tube upright, 1820, the apparatus stood in a cupboard for years, schematic reduced to symbols and lines.Work 9757.The depth hand sat still for two hours: deadpan arrangement facing the lens of an oil-bright barometer and clock mounted as a pair, 1869.Work 9651.An austere lectern bolted to a concrete floor in the years of the works, tritone with a brass highlight, rust tone in the midtones.Work 9520.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 telescope on a tripod facing a port in a grand salon under a single lamp, the winter of the deep station, sectional view of a pressure hull, tintype with a deep black ground.Work 9427.1930: a carbon brush on a slip ring on a scaffold inside the dome, star field projection exposure, stipple shading on a globe figure.Work 9366.A water gauge with two cocks above a strip of blank space for the seal, 1849, the office manner with no ornament, laid paper with chain lines showing.Work 9218.The continental textbook manner of an aneroid barometer movement beneath a heading naming the experiment, sheet with a rubber stamp in the corner, ink on squared paper from a notebook.Work 9118.A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate.Work 8798.Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968.Work 8568.A finder tube clamped parallel to a barrel, the winter the gearing was recut, measured elevation in ink and wash, watercolour wash over a ruled ink figure.Work 8542.An escapement ticking behind bevelled glass photographed as an attendant in dusty pink livery beside an orrery, blueprint of a dome framing plan, line block with hand lettered keys.Work 8452.A printed programme for a sky show on a wooden globe stand, the operator knew the script by heart.Work 8326.The first Edinburgh edition, a brass-geared sun projector with a shutter blade with the veins in blue, hand finished in body colour.Work 8195.A keyed hermit crab wearing a gramophone horn beside the scrutineering bay, the Mali empire years, machine minder at work photograph.Work 8165.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 8130.A sea cock with a red painted handle, Victorian scientific engraving colourised, the manifold wheels were all set open, magnesium flash inside a steel space.Work 8034.A cam follower on a planet drive under a projection dome, 1937.Work 7792.A barometer tapped by a departing guest, the VHS era, raking light study of metal type, slight strobing between exposures.Work 7785.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7743.An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer.Work 7727.A marionette dancer on four black threads, the mid eighties, felt tip presentation illustration, telerecording from a tube monitor.Work 7706.Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper.Work 7699.A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving.Work 7562.