DiffusionLab

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

The collection

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Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 10183.
An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster and a highball with the bubbles still climbing in a bachelor apartment, the Eisenhower years, airbrushed advertising illustration. Work 10102.
A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes. Work 10081.
Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone. Work 9855.
Lithographed fish plate of a bridge wing in cold spray measured against a brass ruler, 1951. Work 9767.
Desaturated palette with one hot colour of a succulent garden in a teacup, heliogravure, writing in biro on the back. Work 9707.
A kid-gloved man in a silk scarf with a phone in a case beside an apostle holding a closed book, around 1320, mirrored composition in wet tarmac. Work 9630.
Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, Hippies and Preppies, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy. Work 9628.
A preserved smuggled scale pan heaped with grey powder, a wet March in 1992, hard flash falling off to nothing, etching on soft laid stock. Work 9509.
1930, mud-caked whale fall bones on the bottom recovered on the second attempt, instrument catalogue plate. Work 9507.
A sandwich in a lunchbox with bite marks and a Haitian tin art, glass shot reference photograph, transparency on a light box in the dark. Work 9476.
A British afternoon tea tray behind a screen of leaves, long lens compression along a bore, panchromatic negative on flat film. Work 9447.
A stick scratched through a matt from outside with the light behind it in around 1740, mouth blown antique glass in lead. Work 9425.
A thorn crown with its shadow burned short, the season of the high sun, photoreal plate with visible heat, selenium toned print running cold. Work 9421.
A fish in chili oil, the year the archive forgot, herbarium sheet photograph, wash marks from a shallow tray. Work 9343.
A carving knife and fork inside a hoarding of repeated faces in the era after the last era, moulage wax model, chromolithograph on thin packet paper. Work 9290.
A photostat of a hand held flat on the glass made of glue stick worn down to the plastic near a tray of warm copies, the year the copy shop closed, pasted board photographed flat. Work 9270.
A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.
A tray handle of dull brass, layout square from directly above, the weights were counted every evening, photostat of an index page. Work 9213.
A lattice-caged snowshoes crossed above a mantel beside a pastry stand of three tiers, the season after the staff came back, tinted lantern slide of a terrace. Work 9172.
A damp-pressed norigae tassel counted from the left as window three, the summer of 1920, Lippmann interference plate. Work 8997.
1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint. Work 8972.
The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet. Work 8940.
Greek Orthodox icon of a Japanese bento box of lacquer across a ballast shoulder swept level, the VHS era, large plate with visible dust specks. Work 8891.
A pan of bacon on a hot ring inside a jagged impact burst, a Tuesday delivery. Work 8769.
1989: a man serving conch fritters off a tin tray off a reef in ten feet of water, watch advertisement taken underwater, transparency scanned for a poster. Work 8725.
Core samples in a wooden tray in the style of a coal dust in the creases of a hand in the underground stable, the winter of the coal strike. Work 8488.
A rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window. Work 8358.
Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain. Work 7780.
A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones. Work 7766.