In 1974, in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", Thomas Nagel argued that no amount of objective knowledge could grant access to an animal’s subjective experience. Half a century later, users on TikTok are testing that limit through performance...
www.valentinatanni.com/to-see-what-...
03.01.2026 09:56 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Infinite Walks, Massive Phone Cases and Shared Dreamworlds
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Infinite Walks, Massive Phone Cases and Shared Dreamworlds. Loading n. 22 is out
loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/infinite-w...
05.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dream Recorders, Broken Phones and Generated Fur Cups
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Consistency isn’t really my thing, except when it comes to sending the newsletter at totally random times. Loading #20 is out.
loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/dream-reco...
12.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Ian James
Vilém Flusser's Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Vilém Flusser‘s “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” as performed by Ian James. Contains binaural brainwave patterns, field recordings, product unboxings and other treats. ASMR adjacent, headphones recommended.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42...
07.10.2025 10:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
International Conference: «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism»
Bringing together scholars and artists from a range of fields and backgrounds, the international conference «React & Respond» aims to map and analyze these contemporary economies of networked image cu...
From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich.
Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures.
Program & Registration:
09.09.2025 15:08 — 👍 45 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 6
Is AI Art Net Art?
Gen AI’s images are a distillation of the internet, inheriting the text categories assigned to images alongside the images themselves. How do artists work with, or resist, these competing systems of p...
If you're in Rome on 26 June, this panel with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & I is going to be fun: "Is AI Art Net Art?" We know the answer, but we'll look at what AI has elided and stripped away from net art's culture of resistance in the 1990s. www.biblhertz.it/events/42198...
12.06.2025 20:54 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 3
Art historian and curator Valentina Tanni. In a new episode of our podcast "Machines that fail us", host Philip Di Salvo dives into the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of humans, machines, and visual culture.
🎨🤖 In a new episode of our podcast "Machines that fail us", host @philipdisalvo.bsky.social dives into the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of humans, machines, and visual culture with art historian and curator Valentina Tanni (@vrandom.bsky.social).🎧Listen now: unisg.link/z2p
20.06.2025 08:08 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
People's Computer Company Vol.1 No.1 (Oct 1972). The publication of the PCC issued from the first computer learning center for the public (including kids!) in Menlo Park, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, long before it was called Silicon Valley.
archive.org/details/Digi...
13.02.2025 11:21 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
UbuWeb
UbuWeb is back. And this time it's a call to arms ✊
www.ubuweb.com
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Mondo 2000 Issue 10
Random find of the day. From Mondo 2000 Issue 10, 1993
R.U. A CYBERPUNK?
archive.org/details/mond...
29.01.2025 18:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CDI TV, Warwick
I'll be in Warwick next week @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Centre for Digital Inquiry
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...
10.01.2025 14:46 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Cat Graffam
I Broke the iPhone Notes App Trying to Recreate a Da Vinci Masterpiece
I'm obsessed with art projects that are purposefully done with the wrong tool #theartofmisuse
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBd...
09.01.2025 13:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dreamy Interfaces, Homemade Toasters and Brainrot Theory
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My first newsletter of 2025 is out. A collection of things I like + stuff I've done recently + spoilers of what's coming in the future. Always Loading...
loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/dreamy-int...
03.01.2025 10:56 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
thanks!
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I don't know who made this, but YES.
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This is what 2024 feels like
Oxford word of the year: BRAIN ROT
Cambridge word of the year: MANIFEST
Collins word of the year: BRAT
Dictionary. com word of the year: DEMURE
Macquarie word of the year: ENSHITTIFICATION
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Happy you're enjoying the book!
28.11.2024 21:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tech, facts, and carbonara.
mantzarlis.com
UC Santa Cruz professor; makes/studies games, elit, AI, etc; co-editor MIT Press Software Studies series; parent; Quaker; Henson/Muppet fan; disabled; he/him
New book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons in the U Chicago Press Replay series
a website, betrayed by god.
queer vegan straightedge. free palestine. him.
https://stillness.digital && https://strange.website && https://henry.codes && https://strangersbyspring.com
marxist art & video game critic
Artribune, Il manifesto
matteolupetti@upandpunch.red
they/them
My book UDO. Guida ai videogiochi nell'Antropocene is out!
https://nuovesido.it/store/collezione-tebe/udo-guida-ai-videogiochi-nellantropocene/
Artist. Exploring Digital Dimensions since 1997 through AR, VR, MR. www.chiarapassa.it
est. 2015 by @neilcic.com
Research fellow @DAIR institute | https://data-workers.org/ Exploring digital labour, platform power, & AI ethics from a global majority lense.
Creative writer| I drink whisky, and I know things
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I make art to understand the world.
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This is a new account with the same handle because oops.
Still walking the dog in latent space
Professor of interaction design at https://kisd.de, formerly San Francisco Art Institute, https://uni-weimar.de, and https://khm.de
PhD Humanities: Aerial Perspectives; Landscape Traditions; Operational Images; Critical AI; AI Slop & Visual Culture; Surveillance Studies; Also Art Criticism; Definitely Coffee. Professoring in the gig economy.
Research Associate & PhD Student
@digitalculturesandarts.ch
Zurich University of the Arts &
University of Zurich
https://larspinkwart.com/
PRONOUNS: HE/HIM
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far and Near Right
Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
Brandenburg Ultra
https://linktr.ee/simonstrick
DIZH bridge professorship
University of Zurich
Zurich University of the Arts
digitalculturesandarts.ch
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Cinque giorni dedicati alla letteratura. A Mantova. Sul finire dell'estate. Dal 1997. XXIX edizione dal 3 al 7 settembre 2025. #FestLet
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Art, Society, Digital Culture