hometown: rome, italy
job: writing, teaching, curating
topics: art, technology, internet culture, nerd stuff
e-mail: valentina.tanni AT gmail.com
twitter: valentinatanni
academia: https://polimi.academia.edu/ValentinaTanni
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BIO ITA // Valentina Tanni è storica dell’arte, curatrice e docente; la sua ricerca è incentrata sul rapporto tra arte e tecnologia, con particolare attenzione alle culture del web. Insegna Digital Art al Politecnico di Milano; Estetica dei New Media e Linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea alla NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, e Meme Culture and Aesthetics e Digital Media Culture alla John Cabot University di Roma.
Ha pubblicato “Random. Navigando contro mano, alla scoperta dell’arte in rete” (Link editions, 2011), “Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte” (NOT / Nero Editions, 2020-23) e “Exit Reality. Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia” (NOT / Nero Editions, 2023).

BIO ENG // Valentina Tanni is an art historian, curator and lecturer. Her research is centred on the relationship between art and technology, with a particular focus on internet culture. She teaches Digital Art at Politecnico University in Milan; New Media Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Language at NABA. New Academy of Fine Arts in Rome; Meme Culture and Aesthetics and Digital Media Culture at the John Cabot University in Rome.
She published the books: “Random. Navigando contro mano, alla scoperta dell’arte in rete”, “Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte” (NOT / Nero Editions, 2020-23) and Exit Reality. Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia” (NOT / Nero Editions, 2023).

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[image credits: original photographic reference by Francesco Antonelli / image generation by Midjourney v5 / training set by millions of unknown authors / prompt by me / badass postproduction by Mara Oscar Cassiani  / inspiration by millions of unknown vaporwave artists]