2022
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Breakdowns (Introduction and updated terminology).
Chapters
1. Algorithmic Allegories: Recursion and Contingency.
- Deconstructing creative spaces through recursive algorithms in the era of advanced machine learning.
- Exploring artificial imagination, augmented realities, and the collision of data sets.
- Navigating the impact of algorithmic patterns on traditional art forms.
2. Temporal Disruptions on the Digital Highway.
- Exploring the concept of resistance in the context of machine learning.
- Conceptual mapping: analyzing distances, delays, and divergent trajectories from metamodernism to today.
- Understanding the philosophical implications of temporal shifts in digital art.
3. Art beyond computation.
- Addressing the intersection of web traffic, machine learning algorithms, and generative art.
- Strategies for artistic freedom and resistance in the digital age.
- Exploring the philosophical underpinnings of computationally generated images.
4. Digital Detours: Subverting the Norm.
- Exploring slippages, temporary digital spaces, and virtual disruptions.
- Examining the hijacking and detouring of digital art within a neoliberal framework.
- Critique the commodification and monetization of art.
5. Re-imagining artistic boundaries.
- Analyzing false starts and incorporating updated artist references.
- Expose epistemological camouflage and explore new frontiers in conceptual art.
- Engage with contemporary philosophical discourse on art and technology.
6. Blurring Boundaries: Physical and Virtual Realities.
- Post-postmodernism and recent developments in artistic practice.
- Examining the work of contemporary artists and the merging of physical and virtual realities.
- Philosophical reflections on the dissolution of boundaries in modern art.
7. Navigating Digital Horizons.
- The journey ahead: La Route Jura-Paris and Beyond.
- Predicting future trends in digital art and technology.
- Philosophical insights into the evolving digital landscape.
8. The Contemporary Technological Condition.
- Developing an Organology of Noumena.
Appendix
Magical AI
The impact of AI on readymade art.
a) Following Digital Signs - Escaping the Speed Trap.
- Uncovering hidden artworks such as The Digital Canvas and Augmented Realities for an Accelerated Future
- Alternative approaches and strategies to making art that bypass the art market and challenge the nature of art itself.