Mindy Seu
A Sexual History of the Internet
Space.City, in collaboration with Cannonball Arts, presents a live, interactive lecture performance and book launch for Mindy Seu’s A Sexual History of the Internet: a provocative re-examination of the digital tools that shape our most intimate lives.
Date: May 1, 2026
Location: Cannonball Arts — Lower Level 1930 3rd Ave Seattle, WA 98101
Doors open: 5:30 PM Performance begins: 6:30 PM
Copies of A Sexual History of the Internet will be available for purchase before and after the event, courtesy of Charlie’s Queer Books.
A happy hour meet-and-greet will follow the performance.
A Sexual History of the Internet is a project in two parts: a participatory lecture performance and an artist book. The work gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the often-overlooked sexual, political, and extractive origins of contemporary digital technologies.
In this live performance, audience members become active participants. Using their mobile phones, attendees form a chorus of readers—reciting lesser-known histories through a shared script. Part history lesson, part collective experiment, the performance entwines sexuality and technological development, innovation and autonomy, desire and control.
Gray Area performance of A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET on November 21, 2025. Photo by Naveed Ahmad, courtesy Gray Area.
Gray Area performance of A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET on November 21, 2025. Photo by Naveed Ahmad, courtesy Gray Area.
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.
Photo by Tim Schutsky, art direction by Laura Coombs
About the Book: A Sexual History of the Internet
This book is a history.
It gathers artifacts, anecdotes, and artworks that expose the sexual and cultural forces embedded in our digital tools.
This book is a script.
It documents the participatory lecture performance, where citations are read aloud by the audience—performance as re-citation.
This book is an experiment.
It introduces a model of financial redistribution: 30% of profits are shared among 45 cited contributors through “Citational Splits,” rethinking attribution and authorship.
Credits
Designer: Laura Coombs
Editor: Meg Miller
Lecture Format Collaborator: Julio Correa
Illustrator: Ven Qiu
Timecode Scripting: Jon Gacnik
Videography: Gabriel Noguez
3D Artist: Tom Hancocks
Website Support: Charles Broskoski
Metalabel: Yancey Strickler, Lena Imamura
The Instagram-Stories-as-Lecture format was originally conceived by Julio Correa in Mindy Seu’s Lecture Performance course (Fall 2023) at Yale School of Art and further developed collaboratively for this project.
Content Warning
This performance includes explicit references to sex, sexual assault, and nudity.
The event takes place in a dark room with bright flashing lights.
