Tour Guide — 2023
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"I had the idea of a machine writing a Catalogue Raisonné, and I was in love with the idea."
Nick Fudge (to Michael Craig-Martin) (Goldsmiths: 1987)
Table of Contents
Unsupervised Systems or, No-thing in Art Production
Unsupervised Systems or, No-thing in Art Production
The magic of droids 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.
Preface
Following Digital Signs – Escaping the Speed Trap
Following Digital Signs – Escaping the Speed Trap
The Exquisite Indiscretion of Hidden Digital 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
Proposing 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
Bottlenecks in the network: museum bureaucracy, art fairs, NFTs, artificial scarcity.
Traffic congestion as methodology: Institutional critique, détournement, opacity, and the refusal to be productive.
The speed of contemporary art circulation vs. the slow sabotage of meaning.
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
Museum as rest stop - a place to pause before continuing the journey elsewhere.
Hijacked vehicles: Ready-mades, art market manipulations, viral disruptions.
The paradox of service stations - artworks as consumable fuel yet always returning to zero.
2. Temporal Anomolies 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 After 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. 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 Boundaries
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 Physical and Virtual Boundaries
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 the Disappeared Horizon
Where do we go from here? Traversing La Route Jura-Paris, we drive into the end of futurity - 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.
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