Date｜Friday, November 24, 5 - 6:30 PM (Doors open at 4:50 PM)
Venue｜B2F Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Admission｜Free (TABF admission ticket of the day required)
Capacity｜180 people
Guest｜Mindy Seu
Commentator｜Ginga Kondo
Moderator｜Kanae Tanigawa, Marina Risa Komiya (FAQ?)
Interpreter｜Hibiki Mizuno
Produced by FAQ?
Organized by Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
In coperation with TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR and Mami Mizushina
CYBER FEMINISM INDEX is a 30-year online archival project on cyberfeminism that have been built and updated since 2019 by Mindy Seu, designer, professor, researcher, and technologist.
The index and essay of this project up until 2020 was published as a dictionary-size book with 608 pages in January 2023.
Hosted by Marina Risa Komiya and Kanae Tanigawa of FAQ?, a research platform based on exchange diaries, this discussion brings together Seu and Ginga Kondo, a researcher and artis specialized in the representation of female homosexuality and known for subculture essays from the perspective of feminism and queer culture, to talk about the cyberspace for feminism and queerness as well as art, activism and community archive in cyberspace and the role of books and zines.
*Japanese-English consecutive interpretation will be provided.
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Speakers Profile
art direction by Laura Coombs, photography by Harry Griffin.
Mindy Seu
Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her 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 (Barbican Centre, New Museum), 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 Frieze, Dazed, Gagosian Quarterly, 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. She is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art.
https://www.instagram.com/mindyseu/
Ginga Kondo
Kondo Ginga Born in 1992 in Japan. She is an artist, writer, researcher, pansexual, and wheelchair user. She researches and exhibits her work mainly on the relationship between female homosexuality and art. Her work uses 3D printers, computer graphics, and VR to interrogate the relationship between minorities and history. As a writer, she has contributed numerous articles on subcultures from feminist and queer perspectives to magazines and web media. She is co-author of "We Are Already Together: The Anti-Trans Discrimination Booklet" (Gendai Shokan, 2023). She writes a series of articles "Feminist Playing the Game" on Wezzy.
https://gingakondo.wordpress.com/
FAQ?
F...figure, feminism, feeling…?
A...art, alternative, affirmative…?
Q...queer, questioning, qualia…?
FAQ is a networking and research platform that began with an exchange diary, like essay-like columns, in which descriptions of the surrounding F/A/Q and the interests and questions of the moment are written on topics started by Kanae Tanikawa(MES, NEON BOOK CLUB) and Marina Lisa Komiya since 2021.
Their latest events: Radical Guidebooks To Our Futures (2023), a talk with Akiko Mizoguchi and Yuki Kobayashi at Stilllive Studies (2023), Dear Tari Online screening and talk at Cultural Typhoon 2022, and screening program at "SLEEP IN TOKYO, daydream" (2022).
https://www.faq-circle.com/