Valentina Tanni's 'Window' Column Explores Web Curiosities from NPCs to AI Art
Valentina Tanni launches 'Window', a new online column on Artribune Magazine exploring internet culture. The debut episode covers NPCs in video games as symbols of alienation, highlighted by Total Refusal's machinima 'Hardly Working' filmed in Red Dead Redemption 2. The Getty Museum's 'Macabre Minute with Mel' series shares dark stories behind collection objects. Curator Shumon Basar's residency 'Lorecore' on Zora Zine includes an AI-generated video with Y7 on reality and fiction. Musician Dustin Ballard's 'There I Ruined It' creates absurd song mashups. Dutch artist Jan Robert Leegte's generative work 'Web' consists of 1000 pages on Ethereum blockchain. YouTube channel Vampire Robot offers virtual time travel through archival videos. AI-generated optical illusions using Stable Diffusion and ControlNet evoke Arcimboldo and Escher. Gianluca Busani's surreal cooking videos on Instagram attract nearly half a million followers. TikTok star Devon Rodriguez, with over 32 million followers, creates hyperrealistic portraits on the New York subway, critiqued by Ben Davies on Artnet. 'Our Frasier Remake' by Jacob Reed involves 130 animators redoing an episode of 'Frasier'.
Key facts
- Valentina Tanni launches 'Window' column on Artribune Magazine.
- Total Refusal's machinima 'Hardly Working' filmed in Red Dead Redemption 2 explores NPCs.
- Getty Museum's 'Macabre Minute with Mel' hosted by Melissa Casas.
- Shumon Basar's 'Lorecore' residency on Zora Zine includes AI video with Y7.
- Dustin Ballard's 'There I Ruined It' creates mashups like Eminem with Super Mario.
- Jan Robert Leegte's 'Web' is 1000 generative pages on Ethereum blockchain.
- Vampire Robot YouTube channel curates archival time travel videos.
- AI optical illusions with Stable Diffusion and ControlNet reference Arcimboldo and Escher.
- Gianluca Busani has nearly 500k Instagram followers for surreal cooking videos.
- Devon Rodriguez has over 32 million TikTok followers for subway portraits.
- Ben Davies wrote about Rodriguez on Artnet.
- Jacob Reed's 'Our Frasier Remake' involves 130 animators.
Entities
Artists
- Valentina Tanni
- Total Refusal
- Melissa Casas
- Shumon Basar
- Y7
- Dustin Ballard
- Jan Robert Leegte
- Gianluca Busani
- Devon Rodriguez
- Ben Davies
- Jacob Reed
- Arcimboldo
- M.C. Escher
- Oleg Shupliak
- Tom French
- Charlie Chaplin
Institutions
- Artribune Magazine
- Getty Museum
- Zora Zine
- Artnet
- Politecnico di Milano
- Naba
Locations
- Los Angeles
- United States
- New York
- Reggio Emilia
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Texas
- United Kingdom