A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

MUTEK Forum closes with the Canadian premiere of A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET by Mindy Seu, artist, technologist, and Associate Professor at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts whose practice spans technology-driven performance and editorial work rooted in online culture and internet history. Her first book CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (2023), commissioned by Rhizome and premiered at the New Museum, gathered three decades of online activism and net art.

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET is a participatory lecture performance and artist book that reveals the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. How have technologies shaped and been shaped by sexuality? In this performance, citations are read aloud by the audience through a shared script on mobile devices as a collective act of recitation that implicates everyone in the room.

An interactive, boundary-pushing close to three days of conversation about the futures we are already living.

First come, first served, limited capacity.

Doors open at 4:00pm, activity begins at 4:30pm. Late entry is not permitted for this performance.

• Please bring a fully charged cellphone. This performance uses your mobile device and Instagram.

• Please make sure Instagram is downloaded on your device beforehand.

• This performance is participatory, everyone in the audience will read aloud.

• Please note that the audience will be photographed during the performance.

Trigger and Sensory Warnings

• This performance includes explicit references to sex and sexual assault.

• It also includes bright, transmissive light in a very dark space.

• Your comfort and safety are important to us. Please feel welcome to exit at any time if you're uncomfortable with either of these elements.