How can folklore help us to navigate today’s digital chaos? Hear from artist Günseli Yalcinkaya in this special event at The Photographers’ Gallery, 18:30-19:45, Thursday 23 October 2025.
Internet Folklore is a study on online culture, emerging technologies, and the myths embedded within those systems. It charts the emergence of folklore as a primary lens to understand a new era of digital communication, where a return to oral tradition has sparked a wave of online mythologies that inform the way we see ourselves and others, from the existential threat of non-human agents such as chatbots and embodied AI, to the growing posthuman appreciation of our own hybrid identities as shaped by algorithms.
This artist’s talk by Günseli Yalcinkaya explores this complex lattice of online culture to present a new media theory that invites the distant past into the near future.
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Günseli Yalcinkaya is an artist, curator and writer based in London, with a particular focus on online culture and advanced technologies. She is a Contributing Editor at Dazed and the former host of Dazed podcast, Logged On. She has appeared in talks and panels at the Architectural Association, BFI, Somerset House, Sónar+D, Serpentine Galleries, Unsound Festival, Vienna Digital Cultures and X Museum. Her essays have been published in CURA, Dazed Magazine, Spike Art, Vogue, Zora Zine and 032c, as well as in books for Aksioma, Julia Stoschek and LAS Art Foundation.