# A Sexual History Of The Internet

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## Summary

Mindy Seu's artist book A Sexual History of the Internet gathers anecdotes, artworks and historical artifacts that she describes as revealing the pervasive and perverted origins of digital tools. It documents a participatory lecture performance, told through audience phones, in which citations are read aloud by the audience. The book is also a financial experiment: citations by 45 people who shaped Seu's understanding of the internet, sex and sexual technologies receive a split of profits when copies sell, a model called "Citational Splits." The Metalabel release includes 5000 first-edition copies, released in September 2025.

## Article

(Photos by Tim Schutsky, Art Direction by Laura Coombs)

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.

This Metalabel release makes available 5000 first-edition copies of the book.

Artist, Author: Mindy Seu Designer: Laura Coombs Editor: Meg Miller Collaborator: Julio Correa Illustrator: Ven Qiu Timecodes Scripting: Jon Gacnik Videographer: Gabriel Noguez 3D Artist: Tom Hancocks Website Support: Charles Broskoski Metalabel: Yancey Strickler Consultant: Gia Kuan Printer: DZA

This Instagram-Stories-as-Lecture format was first conceived of by Julio Correa in Seu’s Lecture Performance studio course (Fall 2023) at Yale School of Art. Seu further developed this format, in collaboration with Correa, for A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET.

PRAISE “Her unusual power is the ability to move through different fields, Trojan-horsing her theories across academia, the art world, the lit scene, tech, fashion, et al.” — LA Times, Mariella Rudi

“Mindy Seu might be changing the way public intellectuals get published.” — The Week

“The lecture also comes in print form, a brick of black paper roughly the size of a very thick phone screen, reproducing a facsimile of every slide. It’s a ‘little black book.’ You can use it at your own pace, and in private, and its looping lists of citations act like a hookup directory of the mind.” — Spike Art Magazine, Travis Diehl

“A Sexual History of the Internet compressed five decades of injustice and resistance into screen-size capsules.” — ArtReview, Jenny Wu

Further details: “A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET” Published by The Dark Forest Collective Leatherbound paperback 704 pages 8.5 × 14.5 × 5.0 cm / 3.35 × 5.71 × 1.97 inches ISBN: 979-8-9929364-1-4 First Edition 5000 copies Release Date: September 2025

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.