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Valentina Tanni

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***art, technology, internet culture *** my latest book is «EXIT REALITY | Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold» (NERO | Aksioma, 2024) *** www.valentinatanni.com

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Infinite Walks, Massive Phone Cases and Shared Dreamworlds Loading - 22

Infinite Walks, Massive Phone Cases and Shared Dreamworlds. Loading n. 22 is out

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05.12.2025 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Visual image & video search engine for Reddit Search and discover more than 1 million Reddit images and videos with infini.wtf - your infinite scrolling visual search engine.

Infinite Reddit Image Search. This is 🔥

14.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dream Recorders, Broken Phones and Generated Fur Cups Loading - 21

Consistency isn’t really my thing, except when it comes to sending the newsletter at totally random times. Loading #20 is out.

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12.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Vilém Flusser's Towards a Philosophy of Photography
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
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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
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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.

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
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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
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This Tumblr blog hosts a crazy good selection of images pulled from Internet Archive (circa 1977 – 1997).

lookcaitlin.tumblr.com

11.02.2025 14:29 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
UbuWeb

UbuWeb

UbuWeb is back. And this time it's a call to arms ✊
www.ubuweb.com

02.02.2025 15:26 — 👍 35    🔁 20    💬 1    📌 5
Mondo 2000 Issue 10

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

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
I Broke the iPhone Notes App Trying to Recreate a Da Vinci Masterpiece
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
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Dreamy Interfaces, Homemade Toasters and Brainrot Theory Loading - 19

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...

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03.01.2025 10:56 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

thanks!

06.12.2024 07:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I don't know who made this, but YES.

05.12.2024 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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

02.12.2024 15:50 — 👍 21    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 6

Happy you're enjoying the book!

28.11.2024 21:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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