Exit Reality (English Edition)

In Exit Reality, Valentina Tanni explores the enigmatic realm of internet aesthetics, where our digital tools serve as magical portals into a dreamlike dimension. Echoing David Bowie's assertion that "the Internet is an alien life form," Tanni delves into the strange presences that have shaped our online experience over the past fifteen years.

This groundbreaking work maps a parallel universe born from code, tracing the evolution of subcultures and visual languages from the vaporwave movement to algorithmic surrealism and pseudomagical practices like reality shifting. Tanni invites readers to embark on a one-way astral journey through this disorienting space that blurs the lines between reality and the bizarre.

Valentina Tanni, an art historian and curator based in Rome, teaches at Milan Politecnico and NABA in Rome, and she is the author of Memesthetics.