Mindy Seu presents a lecture performance and book launch for A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a reimagining of the digital tools shaping the most intimate aspects of our lives.
A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET reveals the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. How have technologies shaped and been shaped by sexuality? Together, we will examine the relationships between techno-development and sexuality, innovation and autonomy, lust and extraction.
In this participatory lecture performance, citations are read aloud by you, the audience, through a shared script on your mobile device. It is a performance of re-citation.
Credits:
Designer: Laura Coombs
Editor: Meg Miller
Lecture Format Collaborator: Julio Correa
Illustrator: Ven Qiu
Timecode Scripting: Jon Gacnik
Videographer: Gabriel Noguez
3D Artist: Tom Hancocks
Website Support: Charles Broskoski
Metalabel: Yancey Strickler, Lena Imamura
This Instagram-Stories-as-Lecture format was first conceived of by Julio Correa in Seu’s Lecture Performance studio course (Fall 2023) at Yale School of Art. Seu further developed this format, in collaboration with Correa, for "A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET".
About the Book
Published alongside A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones, this eponymous 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.
About the Artist
Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (2025) follows her first book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (2023), a pseudo-encyclopedia that gathers three decades of online activism and net art, which was commissioned by Rhizome, premiered at the New Museum, and awarded a Graham Foundation Grant. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts.