Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold
From the eerie, strung-out sounds of vaporwave and increasingly bizarre niches within ASMR videos to the quasi-mythical spaces of underground labyrinths and young TikTokers experimenting with quantum jumping, art historian and curator Valentina Tanni explores
the influence of Internet aesthetics in her new book Exit Reality. The book, now translated from Italian into English and jointly published by NERO Editions and Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, will be launched on 15 May 2024.
Exit Reality will be available for pre-order at the standard price of €22 until 24 May 2024. During that time, readers will be able to enjoy a discount on Postage & Packaging. The book will be available to purchase via the websites of Aksioma and NERO Editions.
This book is published in the frame of the Creative Europe research project .expub – Exploring
expanded publishing.
Cover artwork by @carrotwithak@nero_editions@aksiomaorg
Memesthetics is now available for preorder! 🐈🐈🐈The english edition of Memestetica is finally here, published by @nero_editions 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛ Thanks @tijana_mml for the translation, @evaandfrancomattes for the cover image, @lolagboon and @francesco_d_f for the graphic design, Kenneth Goldsmith for the endorsement and @lorenzogigotti for supporting me every step of the way!
Exit Reality (@nero_editions ) is coming out in Spanish thanks to @cajanegraeditora with a new title: Estéticas liminales 🚪💜 the book is now available in 5 languages!
@annapompermaier & @cenkguzelis aka @me_andother_me invited me to speak on their amazing video podcast. We met in a virtual 3D space full of floating images, which is of course the ideal setting for talking about my research. If you want to listen to the conversation, you find it linked in my bio.
It’ also on @koozarch both in audio and text form 🖤
