✨🛸 Aesthetically Nostalgic 🛸✨

Aesthetically Nostalgic (AesNo) is a community centered around glitch video art where we celebrate individual projects and work on collaborative ones. We are founded on the desire to keep Racer Trash's legacy breathing -- we distort images for fun while expressing what we need to say, hopefully getting you to feel a little something in the process.

Some of the first streams on AesNo were run from Dez's tiny apartment, where they played VHS tapes with a laptop webcam pointed at a CRT while lo-fi music played. We have since evolved into a more programmatic stream, with scheduled events where we play blocks of glitchy videos alongside collaborative remixed features, mirroring Racer Trash's dynamic but with our own flair.

AesNo aims to be more than just artists coming together to make things. Given the rise of fascism and targeting of vulnerable people around the world, it's important that we create personal connections and prepare to support each other in ways we may have never thought of before. Our goal is to be a place you can lean on when you need help or guidance, references or mutual aid, artistic education or simply someone to talk with.

AesNo is also supported by a Committee of folks recruited by Dez. They are representatives of the community that run various logistics, offer new ideas, provide feedback for improving areas, and generally assist with Dez’s vision of AesNo.

If this sounds like a place you want to be, we welcome you with open arms. We ask that you come equipped with an open mind, some empathy, a bit of compassion, and your own superpower for making this community even more special.