Valentina Tanni
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Valentina Tanni
@vrandom.bsky.social
***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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October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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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Dream Recorders, Broken Phones and Generated Fur Cups
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October 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.

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Vilém Flusser's Towards a Philosophy of Photography
YouTube video by Ian James
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October 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Reposted by Valentina Tanni
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:
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...
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September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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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...
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...
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June 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🎨🤖 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
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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.
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February 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This Tumblr blog hosts a crazy good selection of images pulled from Internet Archive (circa 1977 – 1997).

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February 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
UbuWeb is back. And this time it's a call to arms ✊
www.ubuweb.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Random find of the day. From Mondo 2000 Issue 10, 1993
R.U. A CYBERPUNK?
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January 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I'll be in Warwick next week @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Centre for Digital Inquiry
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January 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I'm obsessed with art projects that are purposefully done with the wrong tool #theartofmisuse

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I Broke the iPhone Notes App Trying to Recreate a Da Vinci Masterpiece
YouTube video by Cat Graffam
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January 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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Dreamy Interfaces, Homemade Toasters and Brainrot Theory
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January 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I don't know who made this, but YES.
December 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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
December 2, 2024 at 3:50 PM