panke.gallery • screening • 03 • The Emotional Life of the Net

VALERYE LEYA Powers of Cringe - 16 min Exploring cringe as an emotional and cultural phenomenon, the work examines the discomfort of witnessing others' self-expression and the social expectations that shape online behaviour. Through questions of embarrassment, exposure and identification, cringe emerges as a revealing expression of how digital culture influences the ways we perform, perceive and judge ourselves and others. ELISA GIARDINA PAPA Technologies of Care (2016) - 24 min 47 sec Investigating the relationship between technology, intimacy and labour, Technologies of Care examines the increasingly invisible forms of emotional and affective work mediated by digital platforms. Through the experiences of online workers, the project questions how care, empathy and human connection are transformed into services within contemporary digital economies. JACOB SCHILL EM Assumes Death (2025) - 30 min Exploring the construction and fragmentation of identity within digital environments, EM Assumes Death reflects on the unstable boundaries between the self and its technological representations. The work raises questions about presence, absence and the ways digital spaces shape our understanding of individuality and personal experience.

INSTALLATION JODI - SOD Through the disruption and manipulation of digital interfaces, JODI's practice exposes the systems and conventions that structure our interactions with technology. Their work challenges the apparent neutrality of digital environments, revealing the unstable relationship between users, images and the interfaces through which they experience the world.