Practice information and personal introduction
About Mina Systems
Mina Systems is an interdisciplinary practice spanning systems, interfaces, archives, and perception across physical and digital space.
The practice
Our work moves between contemporary art, collections imaging, digitization systems, interface design, digital preservation, and visual research. Across these forms, we are interested in how systems organize memory, how interfaces shape attention, and how images become evidence, records, or worlds.
Projects may take the form of moving image, sculpture, software, imaging tools, archival workflows, exhibitions, or experimental interfaces. The medium changes with the question; the practice remains grounded in making complex structures visible and usable.
A personal introduction
Mina Systems is the practice of Michael Maughan Yuta Lee and the group of identities who share this body. We often use first-person plural language. Mina is our manager and lends her name to the practice; “mina” means “everyone” in Japanese.
Being a system is not separate from the work. It informs how we understand collaboration, memory, authorship, multiplicity, and the possibility that one structure can hold many perspectives at once. Readers who want more context can visit the System Introduction and interactive system map.
Context and origins
The archive includes personal and sometimes difficult writing about system identity, dissociation, family history, religion, and survival. That material is central to the art practice, but it is presented separately so visitors can choose when and how to encounter it.
Artist Text: System Origins holds the extended origin narrative. Articles of Intent gathers the practice’s guiding principles.