The Choreography of Posting Online: Read an Interview of Maya Man

November 20, 2025

interview by Emma Grimes

Maya Man is a New York-based digital artist whose work probes the changing landscape of identity, femininity, and authenticity in online and offline culture. Through websites, code, and generative AI projects, she explores how we perform ourselves in digital environments.

One of her signature projects is Glance Back, a browser extension that randomly takes a photo of users on their computers every day. Created in 2018, the project archives what Man calls “the moments shared between you and your computer,” turning the quotidian encounters with our devices into a digital diary. She is also the creator of FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT, a coffee-table book that compiles her generative artworks styled after the glossy and aesthetically pleasing graphics commonly found on Instagram.

Central to her practice are questions of authenticity and performance: what does it mean to perform and post on the internet today? Is performance inherently corrosive or just another facet of human expression? For Man, she tackles these questions with thoughtful nuance.

Her latest project, StarQuest, is a solo-exhibition currently on view at Feral File. Drawing on her own childhood as a competitive dancer, Man uses generative AI to restage the choreography and interpersonal dramas of the cult reality series Dance Moms. Read More.

Read Our Interview of Puppies Puppies on the Occasion of Her Solo Exhibition @ The New Museum →

October 25, 2023

Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo, known by the pseudonym Puppies Puppies, is revolutionizing trans and Indigenous visibility through her critically-acclaimed conceptual works of sculpture and performance art. Despite a very genuine and personal embodiment within the work, an air of mystery once shrouded her identity as she initially insisted on a level of anonymity rarely exhibited by artists, particularly of her generation. In late 2017, however, this shifted with the very first reference to the artist’s gender transition taking place in her Green (Ghosts) installation at Overduin & Co. in Los Angeles. Kuriki-Olivo and her then-boyfriend lived in the gallery during the hours it was closed, leaving only traces of their existence during the hours it was open. Here, she taped two estrogen pills to the wall, pointing toward her gender-affirming course of hormone therapy—a subtle gesture that gently opened the door of visibility. Employing the mundane, everyday objects that surround her life is a hallmark of Puppies Puppies’ practice and readymades are one of her favorite ways to reference the art historical canon. An initial easter egg of visibility has since swung the door open to a state of consensual voyeurism in Nothing New, her current solo exhibition at the New Museum where the artist is occupying the Lobby Gallery with nearly constant access to her comings and goings via video surveillance, live stream access, and glass walls overlooking a recreation of her bedroom. Puppies Puppies also points to elements of her multi-ethnic indigeneity—Taíno on her father’s side and Japanese on her mother’s—with the inclusion of objects and spiritual practices that connect her disparate lineages in a form of what the exhibition’s curator, Vivian Crockett, refers to as a memoryscape. Crockett got cozy in bed for her interview of Puppies Puppies on the eve of the exhibition’s inauguration to discuss their creative collaboration. Read more.

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In Art/Life — One Year Performance, Tehching Hsieh tied himself by rope to fellow artist Linda Montano for an entire spin around the sun. They had not met prior. They remained celibate, slept in separate beds, and made photographs of each other every day. On autre.love read a review of Hsieh’s retrospective exhibition on view at @diaartfoundation beacon Text by Hank Manning #performanceart #tehchinghsieh #art #diabeacon

WORK IN PROGRESS 🏎️ The logistical ballet of getting a McLaren Artura GT4 race car custom-wrapped by @mickalenethomas for @dartcarproject delivered to the @fontainebleaumiamibeach where it will be on view in the hotel’s Departures Drive during @artbasel week (presented by Autre Magazine). In Autre’s FW25 WIP issue , racecar driver @zoebarryracing takes the McLaren around the track in West Virginia (photographed by @amandademme with support from @caddis_life ) and speaks to veteran driver Lyn St James about the trials and tribulations of working in a field dominated by the preconceived notions of how much women can achieve behind the wheel. The McLaren, the helmets, and race suit have all been customized and designed by contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas See the car at Departures Drive at the @fontainebleaumiamibeach from December 1st to December 7th #mclaren #racecar #artbasel #miamibasel

BERLIN BASEMENT FIND. 16 copies of the ultra rare @nadialeecohen and @peeweeherman recently found in a basement in Berlin. This is the opposite of a Black Friday sale - originally $20 now $50 due to rarity. Link in bio. #peeweeherman #nadialeecohen #paulreubens

New York, New York 🗽What a dream to present @performanyc biennial’s grand finale with @motherdaughterholyspirit.nyc and close everything out with a legendary performance by the one and only @crystalwaters A very special thanks to @staud.clothing for the support #performabiennial #crystalwaters #party

Legendary actor Udo Kier has passed away at the age of 81. Born in the ruins of World War II, he escaped a world of violence to become a muse to Warhol and countless artists and directors. With his thick German accent, he had a chameleonic presence on the silver screen that was magnetic and transfixing. We were lucky to spend an afternoon with Kier for Autre’s second issue at his home and pool in Palm Springs on a 115 degree day. In a conversation with Charlotte Taschen (@germaninla) he talked about always playing the German villain: “I like what I do, and it’s always interesting and always a bit nasty.” Udo Kier (1944–2025) Photographs by Julian Feeld #udokier

AUTRE Magazine presents the Performa 2025 Biennial Grand Finale with generous support from @staud.clothing , cohosted by @motherdaughterholyspirit.nyc Join us on November 23, 8:00–11:00 PM at 424 Broadway for an unforgettable night of music with Crystal Waters, and complimentary drinks and copies of Waters’ FW25 Autre cover tix - click link in bio #performabiennial #crystalwaters #nyc #workinprogress

“There is a pivotal point in the life of a work when I’ve done all I can, and then I’m obsolete; I totally vanish.” @anne_imhof AUTRE “Citizen” FW24 🏴‍☠️ WYWG out Dec 5 on @pan__hq WYWG is a deeply personal survey presenting several new bodies of work that reflect on and further develop a number of core elements that have constituted Imhof’s repertoire from the outset. Throughout the exhibition, Imhof explores notions of finitude, reality and artifice, chance and fate, absence and presence, set against a backdrop of postapocalyptic isolation. #anneimhof #contemporaryart #artistspotlight

Autre’s FW25 “work in progress” issue is officially out now. In the pages of this issue, we took an experimental, provocative, deconstructed approach. We stripped our logo from the cover. We stripped the ads from the inside pages. We zoomed into the contemporary nature of work AND process in the 21st century—a gig economy of burnout and radical inequality. From prehistoric biology to PR to movie making and race car driving. How do we survive, creatively, in a time of extreme existential crisis? The issue is also, loosely, an exploration of magazine making and the role of cultural synthesizers in a time when print media is more exciting and more read than ever, but is virtually unsupported and challenged by algorithmic, attention driven social media and AI. In our cover story with Betsy Johnson, she curates five years of artifacts—notes, relics and trash—from her creative process to reveal a psychological portrait of an artist of our time. Purchase the issue now - 🔗 in bio #wip

Midnight, the stars, and you ✨ Last night, at the expansive new @laeyeworks campus in Los Angeles, Autre Magazine invited guests on a journey through space and time to celebrate its FW25 “Work in Progress” issue. The evening opened with a captivating panel featuring @caltechedu astrophysicists Katherine de Kleer, Cameron Hummels, and Mike Brown, moderated by Autre’s managing editor @summer.bowie , who guided a conversation spanning black holes, dark matter, and the possibility of life beyond Earth. The discussion gave way to an intimate cocktail soirée, where guests mingled under the stars with drinks courtesy of @madremezcal . photographs by Oliver Kupper #autremagazine #event #nightlife #workinprogress #laeyeworks

“We wanted to destroy art—museums, galleries, everything.” Marta Minujín In conversation with @hansulrichobrist for AUTRE WIP (🔗 in bio) Marta Minujín with her first mattresses in her studio on rue Delambre, París, 1963 #martaminujín #hansulrichobrist

Last week in Paris, AUTRE brought together Shayne Oliver, Frank Nesbitt, and a mix of new and old friends to toast the WORK IN PROGRESS issue with an intimate in-store celebration at @cahiercentral on the occasion of @artbasel in the city of lights #wip #cahiercentral

First stop off the plane from Paris for an up close and personal peek at Dario Vitale’s brilliant and romantic debut collection for @versace at @justoneeye in Los Angeles . A brilliant collection of high and low materiality—from silk to denim. Bold colors and fusion of 1980s high glam with a tinge of 1920s Italian modernism and lots of sex appeal. Unbuttoned flies and open slips with a selection of prints from Gianni’s early 90s collections—including his iconic Miami collection. And of course lots of Medusa insignia who was raped and murdered for her beauty and turned into a monster. Even the mannequins were custom made for this collection-a collab between Dario and 100 year old Milan based @larosa_mannequins #versace #dariovitale #medusa

Paris, nous t’aime. From le Grand Palais to la Chappelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Karl Lagerfeld’s library and house , to Lafayette Anticipations, we zigzagged across la Ville-Lumière, sometimes by chauffeured car, but mostly by Metro. We ended the week at Cahier Central to share our FW25 Work in Progress issue with new and old faces alike. Merci à tous qui sont venus et à la ville généreuse. #artbaselparis #paris #cityoflights

Last weekend in London, model @bibiabdulkadir On the occasion of Frieze Week, AUTRE celebrated its FW25 issue with a private cocktail reception at the brand new Sir Devonshire Square Hotel housed in an old spice and silk warehouse in East London. We invited a fresh wave of young talent who represent our WORK IN PROGRESS theme, challenging old systems and inventing exciting new ones. Special thanks to the entire @sirhotels team @bombaysapphire and @rowena.alice for the dark sounds 📷 Oliver Kupper #sirhotels #london #friezeweek

DEAR PARIS, Thursday October 23rd. You are cordially invited. #artbaselparis #wip #workinprogress