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Mindy Seu

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

September

2026

National Premiere

Fri
18

Sinopse

Mindy Seu’s A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET is an embodied reimagining of our digital tools. The performance gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that 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. — Mindy Seu 

 

This participatory performance requires a mobile device with the Instagram app installed. Audience members will be invited to read aloud in English.
The performance contains explicit references to sex and sexual assault. 

There will be a post-performance talk, featuring Mindy Seu.

 

feminism

memory

connection

technology

sexuality

A person wearing a headset walks amongst the audience, bathed in red light, in an indoor space.

© Naveed Ahmad

A group of people gather in a dark room, lit only by the light from the mobile phones they are holding.

© Max Lakner

An aerial view of a large group of people sitting on chairs scattered around the space, bathed in red light. Many are holding lit-up mobile phones.

© Naveed Ahmad

Info sobre horário e bilhetes

Fri

18.09

21:30

RivoliStage Grand Auditorium

Aditional info

  • Price 
    Free upon collection of a ticket, on the day of the session, from 11 am, at the Rivoli ticket office, Campo Alegre or at BOL
  • Duration 
    45min
  • Age rating 
    18+
  • Aditional information
    This participatory performance requires a mobile device with the Instagram app installed. Audience members will be invited to read aloud in English. The performance contains explicit references to sex and sexual assault

Acessibilidades do espetáculo

More limited access
No subtitling in Portuguese

Author's bio text

Mindy Seu (1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her practice of technology-driven performance and publication focuses on online culture and internet history. 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.  

Ficha Técnica

  • By
    Mindy Seu

    Designer
    Laura Coombs

    Editor
    Meg Miller

    Lecture format collaborator
    Julio Correa

    Illustrator
    Ven Qiu

  • Timecodes scripting
    Jon Gacnik

    Video
    Gabriel Noguez

    3D Artist
    Tom Hancocks

    Website support
    Charles Broskoski

    Metalabel
    Yancey Strickler, Lena Imamura

    Printer
    DZA  

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