A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET is a project in two parts: (1) a participatory lecture performance and (2) an artist book. It 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 the 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.
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.
Accessibility Info
- This event is 21+
- This performance includes explicit references to sex, sexual assault, and nudity.
- This performance will take place in a dark room with bright flashing lights.
Book Description
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 Mindy Seu
Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York. Her practice spans performance, publishing, and research, focusing on internet history and online culture. A Sexual History of the Internet (2025) follows her first book, Cyberfeminism Index (2023), a pseudo-encyclopedia of three decades of online activism and net art commissioned by Rhizome, premiered at the New Museum, and supported by a Graham Foundation Grant. Mindy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA
- Tour website: https://asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com/
- Book link: https://darkforest.metalabel.com/asexualhistoryoftheinternet
- Mindy Seu’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindyseu/
