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In this online presentation, Maya Man (@mayaontheinternet) interrogates the performance of personal identity using digital platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Incorporating desktop collage, screen performance, and lecture, Putting Myself on Screen is a digital performance that seeks to highlight how it is impossible to separate our “authentic” and digital personalities on the internet.
The virtual performance is developed using Maya’s social media posts and real time web animation in order to construct a new digital portrait. Responding to this on-screen collage, Maya adopts the format of a YouTube ‘reaction video,’ engaging with her own image in a second performance that moves between satire and self-reflection.
Drawing on sociology and internet culture, the post-performance lecture “Putting Yourself on Screen” unpacks the concepts of authenticity and performativity in relation to Maya’s artistic practice, including formative projects such as FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT (2022), Glance Back (2018 – ongoing), and COLLECT THE ARTIST (2022), digital artworks that use creative-coding technologies to explore identity and self-image.
The presentation was followed by a conversation and Q&A moderated by SAM curator Duncan Bass. This session is held in conjunction with the programme series Skill Futures.
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Maya Man is an American artist whose work considers the computer screen a space for intimacy and performance, focusing on the phenomenon of translating our offline selves into online content. She has exhibited internationally at spaces including SOOT Tokyo, Vellum Los Angeles, Power Station of Art Shanghai, Times Square, and Feral File. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Forbes, Outland, Refinery29, and more. Maya holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Media Art at UCLA.
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