Join us for a lecture performance and book launch of Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet,About this Event
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 to 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. 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 currently teaching as an Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the Department of Design Media Arts.
Event Venue
Pioneer Works, 159 Pioneer Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 24.30
