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.
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It's a well-known truism that the internet in China is lousy. But business has to be done and file transfers have to be made. New media artists in particular, who can work with large complex files, would be at a loss if they relied on Western sites like YouSendIt (blocked), DropBox (blocked) and eve
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A look at cosplay, or costumed play, in China and how it is different than elsewhere. Also, how it relates to the work of Chinese artists, like Cao Fei.
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A deadly train accident in China becomes a source of social media street art on the highly censored Chinese microblogging site, Sina Weibo.
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Last night, the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆) launched Translife (延展生命), their triennial of new media art from around the world. Curated by Zhang Ga (张尕), Translife is divided into four parts and three floors: Sensorium of the Extraordinary, Sublime of the Liminal, Zone of the Impending and,
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If Beijing has a Chelsea, 798 Art Zone, then surely it has a Williamsburg. That "alternative" neighborhood is Caochangdi (草场地). According to legend, Ai Weiwei moved out here in early 2000 to set up his studio and the China Art Archives and Warehouse. It was a strange move at the time, but galleries
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Zhang Peili (张培力), frequently dubbed the father of Chinese video art, has a retrospective ongoing at Shanghai's Minsheng Art Museum (民生现代美术馆). Dubbed Certain Pleasures (确切的快感), the show extends over two floors and three main gallery spaces, showing Zhang's videos and high conceptual work.
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It's just a typical day at Xindanwei (新单位), a coworking space with a name that means "New Work Unit" in Chinese. Downstairs, Patrick Jost of vvvv.org is giving a talk … On the second floor, the EF Life Club are leading a workshop on self actualization through art, … On the roof is a meeting of marke
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Joseph DeLappe, known best for his performances situated in first person shooter (FPS) games, has unveiled the beginning of a new series of work at Where Where Exhibition Space (“哪里哪里”艺术空间) in Beijing's Caochangdi neighborhood.
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I get lots of emails from people these days asking about the Beijing art scene. What's it like? How does it compare to New York and Los Angeles? In a country of 1 billion people, with a number of different art centers, there's of course no simple answer. But if America's art mecca is Chelsea in New
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There's Communism in the air here in Beijing! With the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party having just passed (per official accounts, the Party was founded July 1, 1921), China is in the midst of a country-wide celebration—and one that presents the perfect opportunity to
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Artists Stephanie Rothenberg and Dan S. Wang's Beijing-based Journey West Travel Office is both performance and installation, a blend of “fake real” that explores tourism, mass culture and "the aesthetics of America's parking lots."
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The idea behind "Dear Photograph" is simple: "Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present." But the results are anything but.