The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Streamline poster with speed lines of an airbrushed bill poster with a brush and bucket inside a booking hall in the coronation summer.Work 10295.Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper.Work 10157.A relief panel of dancers, the hot months, heat and humidity photography, daylight stock under coloured air.Work 10136.Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out.Work 10063.Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on.Work 10042.A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge.Work 10041.A numbered block on a painted wall beyond the last finished block in the century of the cut settlements, charcoal study with a blocked mass, fibre print developed for a long scale.Work 9895.A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock.Work 9834.An utterly deadpan spout carved as an animal head, an afternoon that did not end, dye transfer with a green cast.Work 9827.Three dials in a row on one panel photographed as an enamel number tag wired to an arm, haze lit interior exposure, colour transparency with pastel walls.Work 9785.A suited traveller against a wall of pure cyan at the edge of a widening white bar, the years without a horizon.Work 9620.The last full production year: safety handbook figure with arrows of a welding hood with the visor down against a wall of glazed brick.Work 9575.A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart.Work 9537.A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame.Work 9416.A kamale ngoni against a wall of coarse magenta dots, nobody could play it.Work 9365.Diagram plate with numbered call-outs of a derelict with its array torn away in the age of the slow freighters, fine grain stock with a long toe.Work 9328.Night photograph by flash powder of a yard floodlight mast at night, daylight colour film in flat light, flashbulb at close range.Work 9319.A television set in nine flat squares, an edition of two hundred, print with the same figure in ten inks, library stamp bled into the paper.Work 9308.A relief-cut roller-marked flood silt covering half a causeway, the long dry age, relief carving rendered in flat light, salt print with a soft grey scale.Work 9269.Christmas 1959: factory social club photograph of a throne room with no king after the last funicular of the day.Work 9200.The age of the great crossings, a core tube laid out on a canvas sheet near a wreck stripped to the frame, large plate with a dusty emulsion, sheet film exposed at f22.Work 9181.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9143.A plain of moss over old basalt under a very wide top margin, rosemaling panel, edge torn against a metal rule.Work 9122.A near-empty single steel hatch numbered 04 in a blank wall, the closing schedule, sectional schematic of a wall, hand tinted print in pale colours.Work 9121.An old paper going soft and grey with the face left uncovered, the second week of a fitting, flash-lit wall at night, colour negative printed on matte paper.Work 9119.Zero haze with detail all the way out of a torus section a kilometre across over a continent gone to dust, lith print with a crushed shadow, letterpress plate on antique laid.Work 8906.An ear-defended xerox-blown fuse box with a hand written label, the years counted by crossings, matte painting with a live column in it, time base error across a frame.Work 8859.A scale overlapped to shed the light, deadpan portrait of an impossible surface, it was cold to wear and she said nothing, meter reading taken off the shell.Work 8845.Summit panorama joined from plates of a knife edge test in a dark corridor down a long spectrograph well, the late 1890s, halation halo around a bright star.Work 8818.A moss-grown steam-lifting row of carved heads along a causeway, the last of the wet months, atmospheric layering over stone, exposed for the haze and not the stone.Work 8776.