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Aksioma Aug 15, 2024

Watch the Let's Play: Brexit Reality with #ValentinaTanni & #TotalRefusal at: https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/performances/lets-play-exit-reality/

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Let’s Play: Brexit Reality - Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real data - Real Effects

Art historian Valentina Tanni meets the Marxist media guerilla Total Refusal in the city of London by playing the game Watch Dogs Legion. The lecture performance centres on Valentina Tanni’s book Exit Reality, which explores a world saturated with hallucinatory qualities, emerging like a parallel planet from the galaxies of codespace. Walking, driving and flying […]

Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real data - Real Effects

Aram Bartholl Jul 4, 2024

#Podcast by @aksioma #un #real #data Ep.#5: The #Liminal #Vibes Beyond #Digital #Conformity [w/ #ValentinaTanni] #exitreality

Internet aesthetics like #vaporwave, the #Backrooms and #weirdcore seem to offer glimpses of alternate realities #beyond the threshold of the real. […] – a messy, chaotic antidote to the ruthlessly curated #digital #landscapes we’re fed today

https://aksioma.org/unreal-data-ep.5-valentina-tanni

(un)real data | Ep.#5: The Liminal Vibes Beyond Digital Conformity [w/ Valentina Tanni] - Aksioma

Internet aesthetics like vaporwave, the Backrooms and weirdcore seem to offer glimpses of alternate realities beyond the threshold of the real. From Freud’s “uncanny” to hauntology’s spectral futures, these are aesthetics that revel in the strange, the eerie and the infinitely ambiguous – a messy, chaotic antidote to the ruthlessly curated digital landscapes we’re fed today. [...]

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Aksioma Jun 28, 2024

In 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗩𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘆 #podcast #NejaBerger talks to #ValentinaTanni: https://aksioma.org/podcast

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Tactics&Practice [podcast] is an audio extension of Aksioma’s discursive programme of the same name, focused on investigative art, society and new technologies.

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Aksioma Jun 5, 2024

The talk "Internet Aesthetics: A Journey Beyond the Threshold" by art historian & curator #ValentinaTanni is online!

👀 Watch at: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0oMkZIkn9rY

Her book "Exit Reality" is available to order at: https://aksioma.org/exit-reality

The conversation between Tanni and #SilviaDalDosso about the book is available in our latest #PostScriptUM "Daydreams, Playable Nightmares and Out-of-Body Journeys", free download at: https://aksioma.org/daydreams-playable-nightmares-and-out-of-body-journeys

#tacticspractice #expub #neroeditions @mediengruppe_bitnik

Valentina Tanni: Internet Aesthetics – A Journey Beyond the Threshold

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Aksioma May 23, 2024

Last week (un)real data ☁ - (⛰)real effects hosted #ValentinaTanni and #TotalRefusal 👀

Video documentation coming soon! + The exhibition #BPM by Total Refusal is at #Aksioma open until 14 June.

The programme is curated by @mediengruppe_bitnik

🙏 #NERO #ALUO #VFXFestival #SCCA #Slovenskakinoteka

!Mediengruppe Bitnik 🌐💄May 15, 2024

Today at 7pm "BPM", an exhibition by the artist collective
#TotalRefusal (https://totalrefusal.com), opens at @aksioma.
The exhibition is part of the 3rd and final node of the program
𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 ☁ - (🪨)𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 we curated for Aksioma.

Tomorrow, 16 May at 7 pm, there will be a Let's Play titled 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 with #TotalRefusal and #ValentinaTanni at #Slovenskakinoteka.

Check out the whole program here: http://aksioma.org/unrealdata/

Total Refusal | Total Refusal

Total Refusal is a pseudo-Marxist media guerrilla collective. We appropriate mainstream video games to use their environments and resources to tell new stories and open new perspectives, removed from the tropes of profit-driven marketing logics. Our collective Total Refusal appropriates and upcycles contemporary video games and writes about games and politics. Our collective's themes are informed by critical game studies and social theory in an attempt to promote and popularize a counter-hegemonic left. We also draw inspiration from gaming communities to practice "agitainment" - a synthesis of agitation and entertainment. By injecting post-Marxist analysis into the glossy world of video games, we aim to provide an accessible yet critical engagement with mass media and its underlying ideological algorithms. Our work includes films, video art, live in-game performances, writing, and educational initiatives. We call our films "machinifestos" - political manifestos expressed through machinima. Bridging the worlds of academia, art, film, and gaming, Total Refusal catalyzes a Marxist critique of society through playful, analytical, and humorous practices to radicalize its audience. Since its founding in 2018, our collective work has received 65 awards and honorable mentions - such as the European Film Award, the Best Short Direction Award at the Locarno Film Festival, the Diagonale Film Award for Best Documentary Short, the Contemporary Visual Arts Award of Styria, and the Vimeo Staff Pick Award. Total Refusals' work has been screened at over 250 film and art festivals, including the Berlinale, Doc Fortnight at MOMA New York, and the Locarno Film Festival, and has been exhibited in venues as diverse as the Architecture Biennale Venice 2021, MOMA NY, HEK Basel, and Ars Electronica Linz.

Aksioma May 10, 2024

The book #ExitReality is almost here and so is #ValentinaTanni! 🤩

Next week in #Ljubljana, she'll give a talk 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀: 𝗔 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 at #ALUO and present her book within a Let's Play titled 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 with #TotalRefusal at #Slovenskakinoteka.

More: https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/

#aksioma #tacticspractice #neroeditions #expub

Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real Data – Real Effects

The 15th edition of Tactics&Practice explores how the ambiguous quality of data can be used as a tool to produce real-world outcomes. Can the act of purposely creating data provide agency within data-driven systems? Is it possible to manipulate data to create specific effects? (Un)real Data – Real Effects is a programme by !Mediengruppe Bitnik […]

Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real data - Real Effects

Aksioma May 8, 2024

The last node of #tacticspractice (un)real data - real effects is dedicated to the collective #TotalRefusal, which appropriates contemporary video games and engages in writing about games and politics. The node also hosts #ValentinaTanni, an art historian, curator and lecturer focusing on internet culture, who will present her new book #ExitReality.

15 & 16 May in #Ljubljana:

https://aksioma.org/unrealdata/

Curated by @mediengruppe_bitnik

Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real Data – Real Effects

Tactics&Practice #15: (Un)real data - Real Effects

Aksioma Apr 24, 2024

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 #ValentinaTanni explores the influence of 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 in her new book 𝗘𝘅𝗶𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆.

The book is now translated into English. Published by #NEROeditions and #Aksioma.

Release: 15 May

PREORDER at:
https://aksioma.org/exit-reality

https://www.neroeditions.com/product/exit-reality-2/

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Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold - Aksioma

Price: 22€Preorder it until 24 May 2024 and get a discount on shipping. Language: English “The Internet is an alien life form,” declared David Bowie in 1999: today, the prophecy has come true, and our digital tools have become magical portals with mysterious properties, windows that overlook a dimension bordering between dream and reality. Beyond […]

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Aksioma Apr 18, 2024

Can thought aka theory be as fast and up-to-date as reality itself? Perhaps not, but this conversation between art historian and curator #ValentinaTanni and artist, researcher and member of Clusterduck collective #SilviaDalDosso about internet aesthetics (and, inevitably, ethics) comes as close to it as possible.

🐸 Read the 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀, 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗢𝘂𝘁-𝗼𝗳-𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀: https://shorturl.at/lKSU4

And enjoy our #PostScriptUM series in a refreshed design! 😍

#aksioma #neroeditions #expub

Daydreams, Playable Nightmares and Out-of-Body Journeys - Aksioma

Can thought aka theory be as fast and up-to-date as reality itself? Perhaps not, but this conversation between Valentina Tanni and Silvia Dal Dosso about internet aesthetics (and, inevitably, ethics) comes as close to it as possible. What are “landscapes beyond the threshold”, why a suffix is more #core than a prefix and how dark […]

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