Jan 30, 2025

On Gathering in Five Chapters

Mindy Seu

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Mindy has long been a gatherer. In its material and social forms, gathering brings together disparate items into a collection, which is then activated by a community. In this talk, Mindy discusses indexes, learning trails and the making and breaking of tools through five chapters: (1) Cyberfeminism Index (2) print on demand (3) performing lectures (4) a sexual history of the internet and (5) carrier bag theory.

Mindy Seu

Mindy’s expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions and close collaborations. Her latest writing surveys feminist economies, historical precursors of the metaverse and the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome, presented at the New Museum and awarded the Graham Foundation Grant. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions, academic institutions, and platforms that include Pornhub, SSENSE, Google. Mindy's design commissions and consultation include projects for the Serpentine Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture and MIT Media Lab. Her work has been featured in Frieze, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Gagosian Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail and i-D. Mindy holds a Masters of Design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. As an educator, Mindy was formerly an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art. She is currently an Associate Professor at University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts.