Jenn Leung & Daniel Felstead - Welcome to Jankspace, Babes

Jankspace is the grotesque and hollow realm of technocapitalist networks — the residue spilling out of the digital megastructure as it digests the material world and turns it into hallucinogenic sludge. It is the Uber driver’s chaotically wired, multi-screen setup of tangled cables, flickering displays, and incessant notifications. It is, quite literally, us — our beautifully broken, uncomputable bodies that we know aren’t properly programmed and that no optimization will ever fix. 
In this talk, Jenn Leung will use the concept of “jankspace” to explore some of the central themes of his practice as an audiovisual creator and researcher of emergent scenarios: the aesthetic delirium of contemporary digital popular culture, our deranged and mediated bodies, and the idiotic hallucinations of transhumanism.

- Friday, November 29, 2025 - 18:15h
Casa del Lector Auditorium
Film (UK, 2025, 29’ - English with Spanish subtitles)

- Saturday, November 29, 2025 - 19:30h
Casa del Lector Auditorium
Project presentation

Jenn Leung is a lecturer, researcher, and simulation developer investigating the intersections of neuroscience, computation, and real-time media. She develops Unreal Engine interfaces for brain organoids and agent behaviour simulation, with publications in MIT Antikythera Journal and NeurIPS 2025. A Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, she also researches at Lifefabs Institute and The Bartlett (UCL). Her work has shown at Ars Electronica and Tai Kwun, and she collaborates with Daniel Felstead on commissioned films for DIS.art.

Daniel Felstead is an academic and content producer whose work focuses on the intersections of the body, technology, and culture. He is the Course Leader for the MA in Fashion Media and Communication at the London College of Fashion (UAL) and has lectured at institutions such as the Architectural Association, transmediale, the ICA, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His doctoral research examined speculative production and complex systems in participatory art. He currently produces short films on the mythologies of the metaverse, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology.

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