Performative Talk
 

Internet Folklore
 Günseli Yalcinkaya

9 abr 2026 ● 18H30 ● Auditório Ilídio Pinho

Art + Tech x Cosmos =
Concerts, talks, exhibitions and performances 2026
 

Internet Folklore is the practice of collective myth-making across digital platforms, which harkens back to pre-modern forms of communication, where information was communal, collaborative, and immediate. A study on online culture, emerging technologies – from AI to quantum computing – and the myths embedded within those systems, this artist talk charts the emergence of folklore as a primary lens to understand a new era of digital communication, where second-order oral tradition has sparked a wave of digital mythologies that inform the way we see ourselves and our surroundings. Yalcinkaya traces how this complex lattice of online culture gives rise to new ideologies, digital superstitions and collective fantasies – in particular, how pre-modern image traditions can help us navigate visual culture in an era of AI slop, and beyond.

Art + Tech x Cosmos =
The programme brings together artists, creative technologists, curators, writers, and thinkers with contributions extending across several thematic constellations: from spiritual and the mythic, socio-technological infrastructures and (de)colonial logics, to speculative futures. Through these contributions, the programme explores the potential to reshape how we think about human and nonhuman creativity, how we experience the convergence of art and technology, and how their imaginative possibilities can inspire new cultural practices and worlds. Curated by  Joasia Krysa, Nuno Crespo, Daniel Ribas and José Alberto Gomes 

GUESTS

GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA Günseli Yalcinkaya is a writer, researcher and critic based in London, whose work explores how technology shapes myth. As Contributing Editor at Dazed Magazine and former External Research Associate at Moth Quantum, Günseli investigates internet folklore, tracking how emerging technologies – from AI to quantum computing – give rise to new ideologies, digital superstitions and collective fantasies. Her writing has appeared in Art Review, Dazed Magazine, Spike Art and 032c, as well as in publications for Aksioma, Ars Electronica, LAS Art Foundation, among others. As a member of the multidisciplinary audiovisual project The Talk, she collaborates with musicians James K and Heith, and architect Andrea Belosi, transforming research into immersive performance. www.gunseli.xyz