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 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.

Host or Publisher Pioneer Works