<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends,</div><div><br></div><div>We are proud to announce the release of the English version of <i><b>Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold.</b></i></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div>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 <b>Valentina Tanni </b>explores the influence of Internet aesthetics in her new book <i>Exit Reality</i>. The book, now translated from Italian into English and jointly published by <b>NERO Editions </b>and <b>Aksioma</b>, will be launched on<b> 15 May 2024</b>.</div><div style="margin-left:40px"><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"></div><div style="margin-left:40px">‘Tanni's new book is a guide to learning how to navigate internet aesthetics. It’s also </div><div style="margin-left:40px">an explicit invitation to art criticism to take artistic productions created online seriously’.<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">- Artribune.com</div><div><br></div><i>Exit Reality</i> 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.<br><br><a href="https://aksioma.org/exit-reality"><b>PRE-ORDER</b></a><br><br><div>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. </div><div>The book is available to purchase via the websites of <a href="https://aksioma.org/publications">Aksioma </a>and <a href="https://www.neroeditions.com/">NERO Editions</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>___________________________</div><div><br></div><b>Valentina Tanni<br><i>Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold</i><br></b><br>Format: 10.5 x 16.7 cm<br>Pages: 264<br>Language: EN<br><div>Year: 2024</div><div>ISBN 978-961-7173-46-8 (Aksioma)</div>ISBN 978-88-8056-254-2 (NERO)<br><br>Translated by: Anna Carruthers<br>Copyediting: Miha Šuštar<br>Editorial coordinators: Janez Fakin Janša, Lorenzo Micheli Gigotti<br>Design and layout: Lola Giffard-Bouvier<br><br>Published by:<br>NERO Editions<br>and<br>Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana<br><br>This book is published in the frame of the project
<a href="https://networkcultures.org/expub/">.expub – Exploring expanded publishing</a>.
<br>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.<br><div>Additionally supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Ljubljana.</div><div>
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