Date & Time: Saturday, December 13, 2025 16:30-17:30（door open: 16:00）
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / SUNKEN LOUNGE (B2F)
Admission: Free (Advance registration required / a TABF admission ticket valid on the day of the event is required)
What to Bring: Your smartphone with the Instagram app installed
Language: Japanese / English (no interpretation provided)
Number of participants: 40
Performer: Mindy Seu
Artist and researcher Mindy Seu, editor of CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, presents her new lecture performance A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a two-part project consisting of a participatory lecture performance and an artist book. This work reexamines the male-dominated history of the internet through a feminist lens.
During the performance, Instagram Stories are used as slides, and the audience participates by reading aloud quotations displayed on their smartphones. In conjunction with the performance, a 700+ page artist book of the same title will be published and available for purchase at the venue.
Notes:
・During the event, you will view Instagram Stories on your own smartphone while listening to the lecture performance. Please make sure to download the Instagram app in advance, create an account, and confirm that you can view Stories.
・Please be prepared to read some text aloud during the performance.
・Book purchases can be made by credit card only (cash not accepted).
Event reservation: https://tabf2025mindyseu.peatix.com
*As seating is limited, we recommend making a reservation in advance.
*On-site registration will be available on the day of the event, subject to seat availability.
Mindy Seu
Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City. Her practice of technology-driven performance and publication focuses on online culture and internet history. 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.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mindyseu/