The paper considers an affective turn in artistic practices with interactive urban digital screen-based art that evokes a behavioral response in the audience, which I propose as a symptom of the post screen. I propose the affective experience as a mode of exploring presence in the artwork through “shadow affect”, as an alternative to experiencing self identification and representation. I argue that a phenomenological understanding is necessary in place of a techno-aesthetic perspective, which would allow for more nuanced understandings of human experience in our digital reality.