Vice: What exactly is this? Is it art? Is it for fun? Are you just a perv?
Mavi Staiano:
When you look at all the images together, they have a very youthful, American aesthetic. Would you agree?
It’s strange how with Facebook you can essentially curate your life by editing your photos, albums and information so that you appear in a certain way. Is your work a heightened version of that? Does it portray a perfect youth?
I know that you’re a big fan of Richard Prince and his use of reappropriated photography. Do you feel that because you’ve found these images and screen grabbed them, that they’ve become yours?
Did you ever feel like you’re invading people’s privacy when looking at the profiles of people you don’t know?
Why did you choose to display the images on t-shirts and posters?
Along with the photos, you also screen grabbed bits of digital conversations. What’s the idea behind this?
I was having a conversation with a journalist friend of mine recently about how all progression in language is essentially a bastardization of what came before. Our conversations tend to be full of online slang, abbreviations and invented words. In your opinion, are words or abbreviations such as lolz, OMG, and Marlon Rando just language moving forward?
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