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Kieran Press-Reynolds and Günseli Yalcinkaya join forces to explore internet folklore, digital subcultures and the feedback loops between online communities, algorithms and cultural production, with two 30-minute presentations followed by a short conversation.
A writer and theorist specialising in myth-making practices across online platforms, Yalcinkaya looks at creepypastas as modern folktales: from Slender Man to The Backrooms, these horror stories mutate as they circulate between platforms and communities, blurring fact and fiction while giving form to contemporary anxieties.
Internet culture journalist and music critic Press-Reynolds draws on his explorations of deep-internet weirdness, microgenres and digital subcultures to examine internet music as a form of folklore. Together, they will consider how these worlds spill into everyday life, and how AI is reshaping storytelling and creativity.
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A writer and theorist specialising in myth-making practices across online platforms, Yalcinkaya looks at creepypastas as modern folktales: from Slender Man to The Backrooms, these horror stories mutate as they circulate between platforms and communities, blurring fact and fiction while giving form to contemporary anxieties.
Internet culture journalist and music critic Press-Reynolds draws on his explorations of deep-internet weirdness, microgenres and digital subcultures to examine internet music as a form of folklore. Together, they will consider how these worlds spill into everyday life, and how AI is reshaping storytelling and creativity.
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Bios
Kieran Press-Reynolds is a culture writer from Brooklyn who specialises in deep-internet weirdness and bizarro music trends. They write the weekly digital music column Rabbit Holed for Pitchfork, edit the blog No Bells, and contribute stories about video games, the streaming industry, algorithms and AI to places like GQ, i-D, and The Face.
Günseli Yalcinkaya is an artist, writer and researcher based in London, whose work explores how technology shapes myth. Her practice of internet folklore traces how contemporary technologies give rise to new ideologies, digital superstitions and collective fantasies. She is a member of the multidisciplinary audiovisual project, The Talk, commissioned by TIMES, alongside musician Heith and architect Andrea Belosi. She is a writer-in-residence at Somerset House Studios (London) and a research fellow at the Weibel Research Institute for Digital Cultures (Vienna).
Unsound London is supported by its main partner, the Polish National Foundation. Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.
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Sat, 28 Nov 2026
Cinema 1
11:30 am
£10 full price
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Cinema 1
- Both our Cinemas have step free access from The Mall and are accessible by ramp
- We have 1 wheelchair allocated space with a seat for a companion
- All seats are hard back, have a crushed velvet feel and they do not recline
- These are our seat size dimensions: W 42 x D 45 x H 52
- Arm rest either side of the seat dimensions: L 27 x W 7 x H 20
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