Tour Guide:

Unsupervised Systems or, Nothing in Art Production 

The magic of androids on dirty backroads

Over the past decade, the interplay between art and technology has changed radically. AI, machine learning, and advanced computing no longer merely support art - they threaten to replace it. Digital artifacts now navigate silicon highways, moving with an unsupervised life of their own, untethered from traditional production.

Following Digital Signs – Escaping the Speed Trap

• The exquisite discretion of hidden art objects:
  Endlessly emerging forms within the capitalist sites of production, such as the digital canvas and immersive augmented realities, point to an accelerationist future. Art that thrives in obscurity challenges conventional channels and avoids the traps of an accelerated singularity.
  
  

• Alternative approaches:
  We propose strategies that deliberately bypass established market structures. Post-avant-garde gestures that conceptualize algorithmic delays and digital detours that recalibrate notions of temporality and value.
  
  

• Philosophical Implications:
  The synthesis of AI and machine learning replaces cultural production with a computational interplay of canned chance without human agency. Digital artifacts - once hidden within operating systems - now circulate as autonomous entities, part of an ever-shifting network.
  
  

This tour guide is not a definitive map, but an evolving framework - a set of desert signposts inviting exploration of the intersections between art, technology, and philosophy. It is a call to traverse android deserts and machine-intelligent highways, where each recursion offers an iterative perspective on art and culture. Join this journey into a realm where pataphysics provides the means to circumvent contemporary constraints, and where the future of art/arrhe unfolds in unexpected, unruly directions.

Chapters

1. Algorithmic Allegories: Recursion and Contingency
   In this opening section, we deconstruct creative spaces using recursive algorithms - a digital echo of art historical allegories. Here, artificial imagination and augmented realities collide with colliding data sets, revealing the inherent contingency of algorithmic creation.
   
   

2. Temporal Disruptions on the Digital Highway
   Lived time, once circular, is now fractured. We explore delay and temporal displacement reconfigured by machine speed and AI anticipation. Conceptual distances are remapped - from metamodern impulses to the dizzying present - revealing how rapid computation distorts the evolution of art.
   
   

3. Art Beyond Computation
   A new paradigm is emerging at the intersection of web traffic, generative algorithms and autonomous creative systems. This chapter explores strategies for maintaining artistic freedom amidst the automated circulation of digital artifacts. Here, art is both process and product, shaped by both chance and deliberate intervention.
   
   

4. Digital Detours: Subverting the Norm
   Temporary digital spaces, glitches, and virtual disruptions become sites of resistance. We examine the ways in which neoliberal frameworks commodify art - and, in response, propose tactical subversions that redirect conventional production into alternative trajectories.
   
   

5. Re-imagining Artistic Boundaries
   Navigating false starts and epistemological camouflage, this chapter updates our artistic lexicon for a post-digital age. It challenges us to expose the subtle deceptions of established paradigms and to push conceptual practice towards new, radical frontiers.
   
   

6. Blurring Boundaries: Physical and Virtual Realities
   This section charts the dissolution of modern boundaries. In the interplay between post-postmodern aesthetics and contemporary practice, the distinction between physicality and virtuality fades, revealing a hybrid artistic reality that is both pervasive and elusive.
   
   

7. Navigating Digital Horizons
   Where do we go from here? Following the ancient route of La Route Jura-Paris, we project into the future - a journey along intelligent highways where digital art, technology, and philosophy converge. This section speculates on emerging trends and offers critical reflections on a digital landscape in constant flux.
   
   

8. The Contemporary Technological Condition
   We conclude by developing a pataphysical organology of noumena - a rigorous rethinking of the material and immaterial dimensions of art. This chapter interrogates the interplay of technology, perception, and intrinsic artistic value beyond commodification.