text ~ image ~ sound
panke.gallery’s participation in the Project Space Festival Berlin 2026 text ~ image ~ sound is an experimental evening following the tradition of Sound Nights at panke.gallery. The title points to the three elements the program brings into relation, focusing on how they influence and reshape each other in real time. event is structured as two live performances by Berlin-based sound and performance artists Alma Alloro, Alexandra Cardenas presented alongside netart pieces by international artists Amanda E. Metzger, Julianne Aguilar.
About the event
The program explores how text, images, and data streams are translated into sound -- and how sound, in turn, generates structure, image, and language. Through multimodal practices such as live coding, net art, and browser-based algorithmic compositions, the program examines computational processes as compositional frameworks. Text operates simultaneously as notation, instrument, and performance environment, structuring temporal development and interaction. In net art, (hyper)text as code is used to create deeply personal works. These pieces thrive on the open—and now largely forgotten—web, where the website itself serves as the artistic medium. Reimagined for the gallery setting, these works transition from their original, intimate viewing contexts into a shared physical space. Here, the website is transformed into an interactive screen, inviting the audience to navigate the digital landscape in a collective environment.
Rather than treating media translation as metaphor, the event approaches it as a material procedure: text is treated not only as language but also as code, dataset, instruction set, and symbolic input subject to algorithmic transformation. These artistic practices are embedded within computational and networked infrastructures, highlighting the interplay between technical protocols, ongoing processes, and individual subjectivity.
Artists
Alma Alloro is a Berlin-based multi-skilled artist. After studying at the Midrasha School of Art in Tel Aviv, she completed an MFA in Art in Public Space at Bauhaus University, Weimar, and has since exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions internationally.
Growing up in the punk scene, rave, and computer art, she developed a long-standing admiration for the craftsmanship and attitude of nerd culture. Her work explores the mechanisms of patterns and texture, and how they transform across sound and image. She works across both physical and digital craft, with a practice spanning drawing, painting, textile art, patchwork quilting, code, and animation. In recent years, she has developed a VJ show based on self-developed animation creation software.
Alexandra Cardenas is a composer, live coder, and sound artist based in Berlin. Her work focuses on algorithmic composition and real-time performance, using code as a medium to generate music live.
Working with open-source tools, she develops performances where sound emerges directly from live coding, often sharing the code as part of the piece. Her practice moves between experimental electronic music, audiovisual performance, installations, and artistic research.
Her work sits between concert space and club context, engaging with the cultures of live coding and Algorave while maintaining a strong connection to contemporary composition. Alongside her artistic work, she teaches and builds formats for collective learning around sound, code, and open technologies.
Amanda E. Metzger’s practice revolves around network theory, data collection, and authorship. Her interests lie in how memories are made, measured, shared and reconstructed, and how to create a multi-bodied common consciousness. Working across disciplines with a focus on digital media, her work has been exhibited at the House of Electronic Arts, Basel; MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Luzern; and Pilar Brussels. She has done the Connect Residency at CERN in Geneva and has been selected for the Digital Arts Residency by transmediale in Berlin for 2026. She is based in Basel, Berlin and Brussels.
Julianne Aguilar is an artist and writer. Her art practice consists of turning weed smoke into silly little websites. She’s inspired by HTML1, websites she loved as a kid but can’t remember the URL of, jpeg artifacts, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, clear plastic electronics, the 1999 Nine Inch Nails masterpiece The Fragile, the Gateway Computers cow box, the empty world of Vana’diel, the groundbreaking 1996 first-person shooter Quake, the Buffalo Bills’ four consecutive Super Bowl losses, Usagi Tsukino’s tears, and her cat Toki. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico, and has shown and published work in a variety of traditional and non-traditional spaces and platforms. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Her home on the web is https://www.juliannes.website