Mindy Seu: A Sexual History of the Internet
Pioneer Works presents a lecture performance and book launch for Mindy Seu’s 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 gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of digital tools. In this interactive lecture, audience members will become a chorus of readers that recite lesser-known histories through a shared script on their mobile phones. Part history, part experiment in collective storytelling, the performance entangles sexuality and techno-development, innovation and autonomy, lust and extraction.
Alongside the lecture performance will be a 700+ page, eponymous artist book A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. In keeping with the project’s commitment to redistribution, 30% of book profits will be shared among 45 contributors through a new model of attribution called Citational Splits on Metalabel. Books will be available for purchase, and a signing with Mindy Seu will follow the performance. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Designer: Laura Coombs
Collaborator: Julio Correa
Editor: Meg Miller
Illustrator: Ven Qiu
Metalabel: Yancey Strickler
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. Seu is a former Tech Resident at Pioneer Works, and teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design Media Arts.