Valentina Tanni

Valentina Tanni (Rome, 1976) is an art historian, curator, and lecturer based in Rome (Italy). Her research investigates the intersections between art and technology, with a special focus on internet culture. She teaches Meme Culture and Aesthetics, Digital Media Culture, and Introduction to Visual Culture at John Cabot University in Rome. In the past, she has taught at La Sapienza University of Rome, the Polytechnic University of Milan, and NABA | New Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and Milan.

She is the author of: Random. Navigando contro mano, alla scoperta dell’arte in rete (Link editions, 2011), Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte (Nero, 2020), Exit Reality. Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia (Nero, 2023) and Conversazioni con la macchina. Il dialogo dell’arte con le intelligenze artificiali (Tlon, 2025). Her books have been translated into several languages and are distributed internationally (English, French, Spanish, Greek, and Slovenian). (2025)

Publications

• Random. Navigando contro mano, alla scoperta dell’arte in rete, Brescia: Link, 2011. (Italian)/(English)

• Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell'arte, Rome: Nero, 2020, 252 pp; 2nd ed., 2023. Publisher. (Italian)
  • Memestetica: večni september umetnosti, Ljubljana: Aksioma, 2021. (Slovenian)
  • Memestética, Turner Libros, 2023, 232 pp. Excerpt. Publisher. (Spanish)
  • Memesthetics. The Eternal September of Art, Rome: Nero, 2024, 268 pp. Publisher. (English)

• Exit Reality. Vaporwave, backrooms, weirdcore e altri paesaggi oltre la soglia, Rome: Nero, 2023, 248 pp. Publisher. (Italian)
  • Vibes lore core: esthétique de l’évasion numérique, trans. Willy Lachaize, Audimat, 2023, 232 pp. Publisher. (French)
  • Exit Reality: Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold, Rome: Nero, and Ljubljana: Aksioma, 2024, 264 pp. Excerpt. Publisher, [1]. (English)
  • Έξοδος από την πραγματικότητα, trans. Sasha Romanou, ed. Ilan Manouach, Topovoros, 2024, 272 pp. Publisher. (Greek)

• Conversazioni con la macchina. Il dialogo dell’arte con le intelligenze artificiali, Rome: Tlon, 2025, 96 pp. Publisher. (Italian)

• Antimacchine. Mancare di rispetto alla tecnologia, Einaudi, 2025, 200 pp. Publisher. (Italian)

Links

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