AX Mina is an artist and culture writer exploring contemporary spirituality, technology and other sundry topics. She co-produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice, and serves on the board of the Rabkin Foundation.
Art
Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been prohibitively expensive.
News
Step into a restaurant in Korea, and sometimes in Koreatowns, and you'll find a simple button next to your table. Press the button, and the waiter or waitress shows up. It's an elegant solution to a perennial problem: getting the attention of extremely busy people.
Opinion
LA-based artist Daniel Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994 and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account.
Opinion
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies is an online-only museum that celebrates the artistic relics of yesteryear.
Art
OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Heyku, a new app that takes an Instagram approach to poetry. One of our readers, Luke Agbaimoni, wrote in about his site, micropoetry.com, which features some of the existing practices of poets online.
Art
OAKLAND, Calif. — Those of us who study photography are familiar with the notion of the photographer's gaze.
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — I don't know if it's just me, but alien life — and our fascination with it — seems to have hit something of a crescendo recently. There's the question of alien life in Earth's atmosphere. We have the continued search on Mars, despite an utter dearth of evidence, and there's even a
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — There's the old thought experiment in the days before social media and mobile phones: if you could send a message in a bottle, where would it end up?
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — The stereotype of SnapChat — that it's for sending naked pictures — undergirds a more common but mundane usage: it's used for sending pictures of ourselves. And what is a picture of ourselves but a portrait?
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — Most artists are incredibly busy, especially in a major city where art events and calendars seem to overflow each day. "If only I could be two places at the same time!" is a common lament.
Art
OAKLAND, Calif. — San Francisco-based photographer Erena Shimoda, who takes surreal, dream-like portraits of individuals underwater, understands the healing power of water in her art.
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — As I type out this post, I am ever more aware of those who piece together the keyboard, circuits and processors that brought this computer to life.