In 1974, in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", Thomas Nagel argued that no amount of objective knowledge could grant access to an animal’s subjective experience. Half a century later, users on TikTok are testing that limit through performance... www.valentinatanni.com/to-see-what-...

Infinite Walks, Massive Phone Cases and Shared Dreamworlds. Loading n. 22 is out loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/infinite-w...

Infinite Reddit Image Search. This is 🔥

Consistency isn’t really my thing, except when it comes to sending the newsletter at totally random times. Loading #20 is out. loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/dream-reco...

Vilém Flusser‘s “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” as performed by Ian James. Contains binaural brainwave patterns, field recordings, product unboxings and other treats. ASMR adjacent, headphones recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV42...

From 02–04 October 2025, our conference «React & Respond. Image Cultures under Platform Capitalism» will take place in Zurich. Across three locations and with contributions by scholars and artists, the conference will analyze today's economies of networked image cultures. Program & Registration:

If you're in Rome on 26 June, this panel with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & I is going to be fun: "Is AI Art Net Art?" We know the answer, but we'll look at what AI has elided and stripped away from net art's culture of resistance in the 1990s. www.biblhertz.it/events/42198...

🎨🤖 In a new episode of our podcast "Machines that fail us", host @philipdisalvo.bsky.social dives into the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of humans, machines, and visual culture with art historian and curator Valentina Tanni ‪(@vrandom.bsky.social).🎧Listen now: unisg.link/z2p

People's Computer Company Vol.1 No.1 (Oct 1972). The publication of the PCC issued from the first computer learning center for the public (including kids!) in Menlo Park, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley, long before it was called Silicon Valley. archive.org/details/Digi...

This Tumblr blog hosts a crazy good selection of images pulled from Internet Archive (circa 1977 – 1997). lookcaitlin.tumblr.com

UbuWeb is back. And this time it's a call to arms ✊ www.ubuweb.com

Random find of the day. From Mondo 2000 Issue 10, 1993 R.U. A CYBERPUNK? archive.org/details/mond...

I'll be in Warwick next week @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Centre for Digital Inquiry warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

I'm obsessed with art projects that are purposefully done with the wrong tool #theartofmisuse www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKBd...

My first newsletter of 2025 is out. A collection of things I like + stuff I've done recently + spoilers of what's coming in the future. Always Loading... loadingpleasewait.substack.com/p/dreamy-int...

I don't know who made this, but YES.

This is what 2024 feels like Oxford word of the year: BRAIN ROT Cambridge word of the year: MANIFEST Collins word of the year: BRAT Dictionary. com word of the year: DEMURE Macquarie word of the year: ENSHITTIFICATION