Date
Fall 10-20-2025
Description
An Interview with an Instagram Archivist: @404MPH Interviews @ONLYSTARLEFT is a dialogue conducted entirely through iMessage, presented as both a publication and a designed artifact. Within this text exchange, the conversation navigates themes of digital preservation, authorship, and self-curation—examining how social media aesthetics transform personal experience into collective memory. @ONLYSTARLEFT reflects on the act of archiving not as static documentation but as a living, participatory practice shaped by the speed and impermanence of online culture. Formally, the project recognizes the iPhone as a cultural mediator—its interface shaping not only how we communicate, but how we perceive and construct value within digital life. The design reproduces the Instagram environment through typographic rhythm, spatial composition, and visual pacing, translating the aesthetics of the feed into the language of the printed page. At its core, the interview functions as a methodological innovation: it uses conversation itself as a medium of research and design inquiry. By positioning dialogue as a primary creative act, 404MPH reveals how Instagram-based archival practice redefines authorship, memory, and aesthetic circulation in networked culture. The result is both a critical document and a visual experiment in how online communities curate, preserve, and narrate contemporary culture in real time.
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