Miya Shaffer

Miya Shaffer is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in English at York University (Toronto, Canada). She is based in New York City.

In artist Maya Man’s incisive solo exhibition StarPower, we encounter a series of lilac-colored prints that uncannily evoke this stock vocabulary.

Maya Man, StarQuest, 2025. Custom generative software (color, sound). Courtesy bitforms gallery.

The terms of service for Sacha Vega’s PINCH are bolded and neon.

Sacha Vega's PINCH. Photo: Max Branigan.

In suzuki’s work, the internet is a choreographic structure: memes, gestural vocabularies from YouTube or TikTok videos, and quotable or “load-bearing” tweets inform scores, dialogue, and relationships between performance collaborators.

Benin Gardner, Sabrina Leira, and Amelia Heintzelman in rehearsal at Pageant. Photo: evan ray suzuki.

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