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A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

Artist

Mindy Seu

The Dark Forest Collective

Price

$60.00

Date

2025

Publisher

The Dark Forest Collective

Format

Artists' Books

ISBN

979-8-9929364-1-4

Genre

Culture, Feminist Theory, New Media

Description

How has technology shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This 700+ page artist book gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

This eponymous artist book is published alongside A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. For more information about this performance and tour, please visit https://asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com/.

THIS BOOK IS A HISTORY.
It gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

THIS BOOK IS A SCRIPT.
It documents A Sexual History of the Internet, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. It is a polyvocal story, whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation.

THIS BOOK IS AN EXPERIMENT.
This book is a financial experiment of redistribution. In it, you’ll find citations by 45 people who have shaped my understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits. We call this experiment “Citational Splits,” a new model of attribution.

Leatherbound paperback
704 pages
8.5 × 14.5 × 5.0 cm / 3.35 × 5.71 × 1.97 inches
First Edition
5000 copies

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. Mindy is currently teaching as an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts.

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