Vaporwave
ヴェイパーウェイヴ / 2010s / Style / Digital Retro
Turns memories of consumer society and early digital life into dreamlike unease.
Pink and purple / Classical statues / Early CG / Tropics and Japanese text
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Handling the internet's strange homesickness · Unreality for music and art
- Type
- Serifs, pixel faces, fragments of Japanese
- Composition
- Floating objects, horizon lines, collage
- Material
- Purple and aqua, low resolution, VHS noise
- Caution
- Don't reduce Japanese to meaningless decoration. Bring criticism or personal memory.
- Further study
- Vektroid / internet vaporwave culture