BLENCE NETWORK™ INCORPORATED, 2024–2025, 1-channel video, 10:40 min, color, 1920x1080, © Domenik Töfflinger / httpjpg

Submitted on 28/09/2025 by Domenik Toefflinger for the Final Examination at Kunsthochschule Kassel under Prof. Joel Baumann and Prof. Jan Peters in the New Media class

BLENCE NETWORK™ INCORPORATED is a fictional corporation in an intermediate world—an audiovisual system that exposes compulsion as a product. The work examines dermatillomania as a neurophysiological cycle of tension, action, and reward, reflecting it in the mechanisms of capitalist media environments. Fragmented video and sound sequences intertwine personal experience, digital overstimulation, and economic logic.

The “corporation” serves as a metaphor for a system that creates needs in order to immediately exploit them: attention becomes currency, the body becomes an interface, impulse becomes a resource. Every action remains trapped in the cycle of self-optimization—a permanent readjustment that promises relief but produces exhaustion.

Between documentary observation, sample aesthetics, and auditory overload, a loop emerges that offers no solution but rather reveals its own architecture. BLENCE NETWORK™ INCORPORATED is thus less a narrative than a diagnosis—a media experiment that translates personal compulsion, neural mechanics, and capitalist structure into one another.