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 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.
An adobe-walled hybrid airship, the Maya classic period, Coptic icon panel, pastel palette on faded stock. Work 9265.
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.
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.
A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing. Work 8477.
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 figure in a crest of peacock eye feathers against a backdrop of unlit teal, plate camera on a geared column, print with a deep gloss and no texture, frame with the film edge in the print. Work 8212.
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 glassware advert with a cyan flare, two-up job printed on one sheet, the press ran forty thousand before anybody said, ink on the back from a stacked pile. Work 7807.
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.
Folio plate coloured by hand of a migrant sawmill cutting props to length, 1854, engraving on India paper laid down. Work 7765.
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 coastline hatched in fine strokes below a ceiling of pale mint panels, 1828. Work 7412.
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 fishmonger's price sheet gone cyan made of cooker leaflet with a shifted dial under a cyan ghost of itself, an unproofed run, ink drying with a chalky surface. Work 7197.
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.
Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6946.
Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15. Work 6886.
A furniture catalogue sofa with a cyan edge in the style of a lighter fuel tin with a doubled flame beside a slipped register mark, the spring sale season. Work 6819.