About
J. Mina is a Filipino American artist working at the intersection of technology, sculpture, and performance. Her practice explores how digital mediation transforms human relationships, blurring the boundaries between flesh and machine. Drawing from the visceral energy of club culture, the physicality of contemporary dance, and the immersive power of sound, Mina uses the body as a living interface to explore themes of transformation, desire, and eroticism in the digital age. She is interested in how technology mediates human connection, questioning where the body ends and the machine begins—how digital and physical spaces interact cultivating intimacy and distance in equal measure, often at the same time. Through the integration of organic and synthetic materials such as wood, copper, and latex, my practice interrogates the cyborgian entanglement of bodies and the digital infrastructures they inhabit. These material interventions function as interfaces, inviting haptic engagement and sensory interaction—mirroring the performative, user-driven dynamics of digital spectatorship.
Mina’s aim is to investigate how robotics and artificial intelligence infiltrate our affective landscapes, reshaping intimacy, desire, and the boundaries of the self. Her current inquiry asks: how do machinic interfaces and algorithmic logics recondition human intimacy? In what ways do hybrid identities—part flesh, part code—emerge from this entanglement? Drawing from theorists such as Donna Haraway, she approaches the body as a site of techno-erotic transformation, mediated by screens, sensors, and synthetic touch.