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Place
Publishing in community: A keynote
with Mindy Seu
Sunday, March 23 - 1pm ET
What you’ll learn
How can books be used as tools for community-building? Join Mindy Seu, author of The Cyberfeminism Index, for a keynote lecture and workshop that explores how book-making and publishing can be leveraged to cultivate meaningful networks.
In this session, you’ll learn how Seu brought together a diverse network of artists, designers, educators, students, institutions, and thinkers to present 89 lectures across 18 countries over the course of a year. An interdisciplinary artist herself, Seu will delve into the transformative role that books can play in building communities far beyond the scope of the medium. Whether you're an aspiring writer or published author, this workshop will inspire new ways to use books as catalysts for connection and collaboration.
About Mindy Seu
Image description: A headshot of Mindy standing against a white background. She looks calm and intent, her hair is wavy and lands past her shoulders, and she wears chunky earrings and a black tank top, cut at the top to create a collar around the neck.
Mindy Seu is an artist and technologist based in New York City and Los Angeles whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. In 2023, Seu published Cyberfeminism Index, a pseudo-encyclopaedic book that gathers three decades of online activism and net art. It was commissioned by Rhizome, awarded the Graham Foundation Grant, and underwent an international book tour with 89 performative readings across 18 countries with sold out events at the New Museum (NYC), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Amant Foundation (Brooklyn), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), among others. Seu is currently developing a new lecture performance called A Sexual History of the Internet, set to tour in Fall 2025, along with an eponymous artist book published by Metalabel.
Her latest writing surveys feminist economies, historical precursors of the metaverse, and the materiality of the internet. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (MoMA, Barbican Centre), academic institutions (Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), and been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Her design commissions and consultation include projects for the Serpentine Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and MIT Media Lab. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Frieze, Dazed, Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and more. Mindy holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. 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.