Vaporwave emerged in the 2010s as a music and visual art genre that is known for its influences by early internet culture and aesthetics – memes, web design, glitch art, anime, 3D-rendered objects and vectors are often to be found in the movement’s visual context. Characterized by its ambiguous combination of sunset nostalgia with satirical criticism in regard to the world wide web, technology and consumerism, Vaporwave forms a parallel to »0010«’s main emphasis: the observation of the digitization in art.

The 22 ultra-contemporary artists featured in »0010«’s issue number three – »the vaporwave issue« – work with a variety of media and techniques. Some with rather analog approaches that are often influenced by the digital, others that are inherently digital and find their feasible extension in the physical and many interplaying in between both poles in terms of content.