Screenshot of text over the top of whitney.org saying "Pilates at 7:00, went home, changed, quick breakfast, and then I walked into work" in bold pink, with TikTok comments spread around and behind.

Maya Man’s A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City builds on one of the most popular formats for short-form content on the Internet, the “day in my life” video, to explore online self-representation. The artist excerpted text mentioning specific hours of the day—for example 8 am, 11 pm—from thousands of publicly posted TikTok videos, stripping them of all visual elements to highlight the “day in my life” genre’s method of storytelling.

Maya Man: A Realistic Day In My Life Living In New York City

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On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

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