{"id":763202,"date":"2026-06-27T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:48:35","slug":"mindy-seu-performs-a-sexual-history-of-the-internet-in-milan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763202\/","title":{"rendered":"mindy seu performs a sexual history of the internet in milan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>cite, recital, and citation\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We realized the roots of recital and citation are the same: cite. That recitals are an embodiment of the citation. You\u2019re reading someone else\u2019s words aloud. That felt like a nice extension of the Cyberfeminism Index because all of these essays are built off citations. But actually being able to read someone else\u2019s words aloud led to that religious quality.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leveraging Instagram was an idea she developed alongside a former student of hers, Julio Correa, who had initially proposed the idea during a course she taught at Yale back in 2023. \u2018I really believe in prototyping in public. We\u2019ve been beta testing it between 2024 and 2025 to figure out the narrative arc: what could be too long or too short, how to figure out these primary beats, and the soundscape. But it was also trying to learn how to divert Instagram\u2019s very opaque community guidelines because much of our content gets censored.\u2019 Seu explains that they used fake Instagram accounts, temporary posts, and other methods to test what Meta deemed explicit.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196674 lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"mindy seu explores the web\u2019s ties to the body and intimacy through group incantations - 7\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mindy-seu-sexual-history-designboom-07.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Teletext Babez, emulation by Dragan Espenschied; photo by Tim Schutsky, art direction by Laura Coombs<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196673 lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"mindy seu explores the web\u2019s ties to the body and intimacy through group incantations - 8\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mindy-seu-sexual-history-designboom-06.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>http:\/\/asciiporn.us\/; photo by Tim Schutsky, art direction by Laura Coombs<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>crystalized in the little black book<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Now, with this current version, we\u2019ve learned how to censor the images and the text in a way that doesn\u2019t really trigger these algorithms anymore.\u2019 But even then, Seu, who was previously a fellow at the Internet Archive, emphasizes how duplication is key to keeping something digital alive. As such, A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET is replicated on multiple digital accounts, while the knowledge is crystallized IRL in the \u2018little black book\u2019 of the same title.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following the performance, an even bigger audience pack into the bar to catch her talk with organizer Elisa Carassai. Once it wraps, a crowd flocks to grab a copy of the compact artifact, which was described by the artist as an Instagram story extruded to 700 pages. After experiencing how fleeting a digital story can be, they don\u2019t want to let this history slip into the digital void.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196676 lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"mindy seu explores the web\u2019s ties to the body and intimacy through group incantations - 9\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mindy-seu-sexual-history-designboom-09.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>still of Mistress Harley from Engadget, \u201cHacking, castration and the future of financial domination,\u201d 2018; photo by Tim Schutsky, art direction by Laura Coombs<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1196688 lazyload\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"mindy seu explores the web\u2019s ties to the body and intimacy through group incantations - 10\" width=\"818\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/mindy-seu-sexual-history-designboom-21.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>back cover, photo by Tim Schutsky, art direction by Laura Coombs<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>project info: <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>artist: <a href=\"https:\/\/mindyseu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mindy Seu<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mindyseu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@mindyseu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>event: <a href=\"https:\/\/asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/asexualhistoryoftheinternet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@asexualhistoryoftheinternet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>location: Section80 Bar, Milan, Italy | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/section80.bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@section80.bar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>date: September 20, 2025 \u2013 Fall\/Winter 2026<\/p>\n<p>organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/elisacarassai.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Elisa Carassai<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elisacarassai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@elisacarassai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>book: <a href=\"https:\/\/darkforest.metalabel.com\/asexualhistoryoftheinternet?variantId=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET<\/a><\/p>\n<p>book designer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lauracoombs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Laura Coombs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lauracoombs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@lauracoombs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>editor: Meg Miller<\/p>\n<p>lecture format collaborator: <a href=\"https:\/\/juliocorrea.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Julio Correa<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliocorreaestrada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@juliocorreaestrada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>illustrator: Ven Qiu<\/p>\n<p>timecode scripting: Jon Gacnik<\/p>\n<p>videographer: Gabriel Noguez<\/p>\n<p>3D artist: Tom Hancocks<\/p>\n<p>website support: Charles Broskoski<\/p>\n<p>metalabel: Yancey Strickler, Lena Imamura<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>annalise kamegawa I designboom<\/p>\n<p>jun 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 cite, recital, and citation\u00a0 \u00a0 We realized the roots of recital and citation are the same: cite.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,457,460,207035,134],"class_list":["post-763202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-books","tag-design","tag-digital-art","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}