Have a new photo essay in Design Observer this week. This time, I’m focused on Manila’s rich SMS/texting culture, and how that influences the design of storefronts, public space and even Starbucks trinkets. Did you know that the Philippines is the world leader in texting per user? In the United States, users send, on average, [...]
Swung by the Old Drum and Bell Towers area this weekend to see Chak Man Lei’s tango dancing, as part of Stephanie Rothenberg’s Travel Office, an art installation/performance art intervention she’s set up in Beijing. The area reminds me a bit of Brooklyn, a historic part of Old Beijing quickly gentrifying and attracting “hipster” types [...]
This month, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is hosting John Baldessari’s Your Name in Lights, his popular commentary on that famous “15 minutes of fame” concept. In this particular installation, it’s reduced to 15 seconds, and broadcast in Museumplain, Amsterdam and simultaneously on the Internet. You can register here to be part of the fun. It’s [...]
Christopher Knight at the Los Angeles Times recently wrote a little about my work after reading the ARTnews “Social Revolution” article: “Social media art involves ‘seamlessly blending the online and offline worlds,’ in the words of L.A. artist An Xiao Mina.” That he called me a Los Angeles artist is an honor, especially right now [...]
In addition to physical-world places like Roberta’s, Facebook has become the popular hangout for artists and art world types engaging in dialogue about changes in contemporary art. Recently, James Kalm, aka Loren Munk, posed a question about the “new paradigm” of the art world. He received a ton of responses, many of which were interesting, [...]
I’m thrilled to appear in “The Social Revolution: The Art World on Facebook“, a cover story by Barbara Pollack for the June edition of ARTnews: “Artists who have been working with the Internet and with new media since that genre began are interested in participatory systems and social networking,” says Lauren Cornell, the curator of [...]
A sign outside Jianwai SOHO, a home office complex in Beijing’s Central Business District. The enduring real estate value of the word “Soho” is amazing to me. It apparently started as a hunting cry that became associated with a fashionable part of London. Then New York sprouted SoHo, of course, which has arguably outshone its [...]
I’ve been Tumbling for a while now, and blogging for a while too, but I decided to really turn my Tumblr, anxiaostudio.tumblr.com into the scrapbook I claim it is. I’m now posting more pictures and notes from my travels, little design things I see, little bits of culture, in addition to the cool links I [...]
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