How have technologies shaped and been shaped by sexuality? This version of the story begins with your phone. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, 2025, is a polyvocal lecture whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation. Instagram Stories form a script; with enough voices, that script becomes a chorus. Seu asks her audience to reimagine these technologies with her and together break the intended use of these digital tools.
Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City. A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, 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.
Please be advised that this performance includes explicit references to sex and sexual assault. It also includes bright, transmissive light in a pitch dark environment.
In preparation for A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET please bring your mobile device with the Instagram app installed. For the best experience, we recommend using cellular data. If Wi-Fi is needed, please feel free to connect to MOCA's guest Wi-Fi.
Wonmi’s WAREHOUSE Programs is organized by Alex Sloane, Associate Curator, and is produced by Amelia Charter, Producer of Performance and Programs with Michele Huizar, Performance Coordinator, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
This performance is made possible by generous endowment support from Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.
Performances at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Performance with generous funding provided by Betsy Greenberg and The Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg Fund.
Wonmi's WAREHOUSE Programs is founded by Wonmi & Kihong Kwon and Family.
