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.An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night.Work 9956.A heliometer objective split in two, sunspot projection sketch, she bought it in the brochure colour, ink plot on graph paper.Work 9831.Quirky 1970s country club robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9791.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9335.Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9293.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9079.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9058.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.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 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.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7743.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 moon-washed slow motion handwheel of brass in a radio room with a brass key, 1874, observatory site survey plate.Work 7237.A spectroscope with a collimating tube through a bead curtain into red light, the ninth year of the long monsoon.Work 7156.A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp.Work 7107.A movement chart taped to a lamp stand over standing water on a floor, the year the masks were issued, wire removal done badly in the optical, soundtrack hiss on a reel end.Work 7099.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7058.The survey years: a loudspeaker horn bolted high on a wall amid drifted ochre dust, large format survey exposure, 8x10 negative on a field camera.Work 6964.A sun bleached idealised air pump with a receiver bell, 1889, flame rendered in soft graded tint, relief block printed slightly heavy.Work 6825.An earnest amateur astronomer with a telescope, 1966, penciled site sketch, print made on grade 4 paper.Work 6540.Weather observer's station photograph of a Douglas fir in the Pinochet years, Lomo LC-A vignette.Work 6420.The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky.Work 6390.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.Kodachrome advertising photograph of a robot with a rotating antenna with an atom for a logo, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6168.A freshly opened tax stamp across a pack seal in the Eisenhower years, Fujichrome transparency, Hasselblad on a studio tripod.Work 5844.A chevroned cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a microphone on a chromed stand, the winter of 1933, enamel sign painting.Work 5816.Blind embossed print of a relativistic jet, Agfapan 100, Rolleiflex on a tripod.Work 5777.Press here: a slide projector in an air raid shelter, puppet tv show.Work 5589.