[spectre] Book release: Exit Reality by Valentina Tanni [ENG]

[Marcela Okretič]

Dear friends,

We are proud to announce the release of the English version of *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*,
will be launched on* 15 May 2024*.

‘Tanni's new book is a guide to learning how to navigate internet
aesthetics. It’s also
an explicit invitation to art criticism to take artistic productions
created online seriously’.
- Artribune.com

*Exit Reality* marks the first attempt to map a world imbued with
disorienting hallucinatory qualities, a realm that appears as a parallel
planet that has emerged from the depths of code-space. Starting from the
advent of vaporwave, which infused the network’s native imagery with
spectral qualities in the early 2010s, she takes us on a descent through
the levels that traverse the silent horror of the Backrooms, brushes
against the obsession with sensory stimulation of ASMR, delves into the
algorithmic surrealism of weirdcore, and lands in the exploration of
pseudomagical practices such as reality shifting and memetic rituals. All
the while, we remain comfortably seated before our screen, inside a
battlestation ready to take off for a one-way astral journey, eternally
trapped in the liminal space born from the now inseparable bond between
human visions and Machine dreams.

*PRE-ORDER* <https://aksioma.org/exit-reality>

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 shipping.
The book is available to purchase via the websites of Aksioma
<https://aksioma.org/publications>and NERO Editions
<https://www.neroeditions.com/>.

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*Valentina TanniExit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other
Landscapes Beyond the Threshold*
Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm
Pages: 264
Language: EN
Year: 2024
ISBN 978-961-7173-46-8 (Aksioma)
ISBN 978-88-8056-254-2 (NERO)

Translated by: Anna Carruthers
Copyediting: Miha Šuštar
Editorial coordinators: Janez Fakin Janša, Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti
Design and layout: Lola Giffard-Bouvier

Published by:
NERO Editions
and
Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana

This book is published in the frame of the project .expub – Exploring
expanded publishing <https://networkcultures.org/expub/>.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however
those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the
European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency
(EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for
them.
Additionally supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.
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Marcela Okretič
Aksioma - Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
www.aksioma.org
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