Human Entities 2025 – Welcome to Jankspace, babes, by Daniel Felstead
Welcome to Jankspace, babes
Artist talk by Daniel Felstead
Human Entities 2025: culture in the age of artificial intelligence, ninth edition
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 6.30pm
Grand Auditorium, Faculty of Fine Arts, ULisboa,
All welcome, free entry, booking required
Welcome to Jankspace, babes
by Daniel Felstead (content producer)
Jankspace is the leaking residual of the stack as it metabolises meatspace into hallucinogenic sludge. It’s the Uberdriver’s chaotically impressive multi-display setup of knotted cables, flashing screens and beeping notifications. It’s literally us and our gorgeously fucked-up, uncomputable bodies that we know aren’t quite programmed right and no amount of optimization is going to fix. In this artist talk Daniel will use the concept of jankspace to explore some of the central themes of his practice, namely, the aesthetic derangement of everyday digital culture, our unhinged mediated bodies, and the idiotic delusions of transhumanism.
Daniel Felstead
Daniel Felstead is an academic and content producer whose practice focuses on the relationship between the body, technology, and culture. He is the course leader of MA Fashion Media & Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL). Daniel has spoken and exhibited internationally including Architectural Association, Berlin Critics Week, Die Angewandte, Fundació Foto Colectania, Global Art Forum, MAPS, ICA, PAF, RCA, RISD, Shedhalle, Transmediale and V&A Museum. His PhD explored speculative modes of production, complex systems and the platform in relation to participatory art. Most recently Daniel has produced a series of critically acclaimed short film commissions that explore the myths, ideologies and realities of the metaverse, AI, biotech and neural media.
https://www.instagram.com/felstead.daniel
The talk will be in English and followed by a Q&A session.
This event is part of Human Entities 2025: Culture in the age of artificial intelligence, ninth edition. Read more about the programme
Organised by CADA (Jared Hawkey/Sofia Oliveira) in partnership with Lisbon Architecture Triennale and with the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon: Departments of Communication Design and Department Multimedia Arts, as part of Human Entities 2025: culture in the age of artificial intelligence, ninth edition (Public talks, May – June 2025); a program focused on technological change and its impacts, on the ways in which technology and culture influence each other.
NOTE: Special needs: Access for people with motor disabilities and sign language translation: please contact sofiaoliveira506@gmail.com and we will endeavour to provide the service.