A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET
a lecture performance by Mindy Seu
| 2025-09-16 | Metalabel (preorder launch) | New York |
| 2025-09-20 | Pioneer Works (sold-out) | New York |
| 2025-09-26 | Us By Night Festival | Antwerp |
| 2025-10-09 | Wood Street Galleries (rsvp) | Pittsburgh |
| 2025-10-18 | NEW! Performance Space New York (tickets) | New York |
| 2025-10-25 | KW (tickets) | Berlin |
| 2025-10-30 | NEW! Office for Contemporary Art | Oslo |
| 2025-11-01 | La Mosca | Madrid |
| 2025-11-06 | Kunstverein | Hamburg |
| 2025-11-15 | Museum of Contemporary Art (tickets) | Los Angeles |
| 2025-11-21 | Gray Area (tickets) | San Francisco |
| 2025-12-11 | M+ | Hong Kong |
| 2025-12-13 | Museum of Contemporary Art | Tokyo |
| see photos from past performances |
A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET reveals the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. In this participatory lecture performance, these histories and citations will be read aloud by you, the audience, through a shared script on your mobile device. It is a performance of re-citation.
Preorder the Book!
Alongside the lecture performance, the eponymous 700+ page artist book will be published on Metalabel. The book A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET is a financial experiment of redistribution. In it, you’ll find citations by 45 people. When you buy this book, they will split 30% of profits through “Citational Splits” — a new model of attribution. Read more about this financial experiment.
Designer: Laura Coombs
Editor: Meg Miller
Collaborator: Julio Correa
Illustrator: Ven Qiu
Timecodes Scripting: Jon Gacnik
Videographer: Gabriel Noguez
3D Artist: Tom Hancocks
Website Support: Charles Broskoski
Metalabel: Yancey Strickler
Consultant: Gia Kuan
Printer: DZA
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.
PRAISE
“The performance sounds like a Catholic Mass… gave me shivers.”
—Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art
“Is the internet about sex or sterility? It’s a species-level decision we still have not made. But the conversation is starting with A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. A must-see if you have sex organs and use the internet.”
—Jaron Lanier, pioneer of virtual reality
“This is not just a performance, it’s an excavation. Mindy Seu exposes the sexual subtext coded into our technologies and reframes the internet as a site of power, control, and longing. It’s bold, brilliant, and necessary.”
—Erika Lust, pornographic filmmaker
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Photo by Iga Drobisz
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. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts.