BERJAYA

I’m an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City. My practice of technology-driven performance and publication centers around online cultures and internet art history. Below you'll find a selection of highlights and current projects. For a comprehensive list of work and press, please view my CV spreadsheet. For professional bios written in the third person, refer to the blurb at the top of the CV spreadsheet. Otherwise, continue reading for the latest collaborations...

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (lecture performance)
This lecture performance reveals the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. The performance script takes place on the respective iPhones of each audience member, syncing hundreds of voices to create a polyvocal performance of re-citation. The Fall 2025 tour sold out performances at cultural institutions worldwide, including Pioneer Works (NYC), MOCA (Los Angeles), the Museum of Contemporary Art/MOT (Tokyo), and KW (Berlin), among others. We are currently planning the Spring/Summer 2026 tour, including performances at MCA Chicago, ICA London, Mutek Festival (Montreal), among others. The project has garnered widespread attention, earning a front-page feature in the LA Times and profiles in Artforum, Art in America, ArtNews, 032c, and Harper’s Bazaar Italia. The LA Times declared it “a marker of Seu’s arrival as a public intellectual.” This Instagram-Stories-as-Lecture format was first conceived of by Julio Correa when I was teaching my Lecture Performance studio course (Fall 2023) at Yale School of Art. I further developed this format, in collaboration with Correa.

description — 2025 Sept, Pioneer Works (NYC), Photo by Max Lakner

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET (book)
This 700+ page artist book, no larger than your iPhone, is a facsimile of the eponymous performance above. It is also a financial experiment — for every book sold, profit will be redistributed to those cited within. To learn more about the design process, see this review on It’s Nice That. Thank you so much to my collaborators Laura Coombs (design), Meg Miller (editing), and Ven Qiu (illustrations). For the full team, please see asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com.

CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (lecture performance)
In 2022–23, I had a whirlwind international book tour with 89 events in 50 cities and 18 countries. We held sold-out events at the New Museum (New York), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris), MCA Australia (Sydney), and Amant Foundation (Brooklyn), among others. During a Summer 2022 residency at MacDowell, I worked on the Cyberfeminism Index performative reading with bespoke Augmented Reality app by Tommy Martinez. To preview this lecture performance, please view the documentation of our New Museum event by Rhizome. For more lectures, view the “Performances” and “Talks” tabs of my CV spreadsheet.

CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (book)
This is encyclopedic survey of online activism and net art. It was published by Inventory Press, distributed by D.A.P, designed by Laura Coombs, and edited by Andrew Scheinman and Eugenia Bell, with image permissions by Danielle Wu. It is a recipient of the Graham Foundation Grant. The CYBERFEMINISM INDEX (website) was commissioned by Rhizome and premiered with New Museum’s First Look. Thank you to my collaborator Angeline Meitzler who developed the online database, with frontend support from Janine Rosen and Print CSS support by Charles Broskoski. This research began during my time at the Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society and Harvard GSD. Thank you so much to my GSD mentors Jeffrey Schnapp and Malkit Shoshan. It has been featured in Vanity Fair, Frieze, Dazed, Brooklyn Rail, and Gagosian Quarterly.

SELECTED WRITING
For all texts, view the “Writing” tab of my CV spreadsheet

upcoming, Criterion Collection, “Fresh Kill: Fluid Transmission”, liner notes for the release of Shu Lea Cheang’s Fresh Kill
upcoming, Family Style, “Power Play”, essay for Man vs. Machine issue
Serpentine Gallery, The Delusion (Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s monograph), conversation with Legacy Russell
Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Art: 1960s to Now, “Self-Organized Digital Art Communities” with Pita Arreola, Paul Brown, Doreen Ríos
Hyundai Artlab, “Mindy Seu Traces the Origins of Internet Green”
Yale Perspecta 57: Archival Ferment, Conversation with Carmen Winant (title tbd)
United States Artists, “The Digital is Physical,” Conversation with Mimi Onuoha
Phaidon, CryptoPunks: Free to Claim, Field Report: “Sex on Chain: Gender and Self-Sovereignty in Web3”
Outland, “Performing Lectures”
Source Type, Geoff Han’s Image RIP, “The Internet Exists on Planet Earth: Earth, Water, Sky”
Spike #77 “Field Guide to AI,” I interviewed Martine Syms and Margarete Jahrmann
Pioneer Works, Software for Artists #2: Untethering the Web, The Metaverse is a Contested Territory”
Knight Foundation x United States Artists, Shift Space, “On Gathering”

SELECTED PRESS
All features can be found in the “Press” tab in my CV spreadsheet

LA Times by Mariella Rudi
Spike Art Magazine by Travis Diehl
032c by Em Mai Chmiel
ArtNews by Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
Harper’s Bazaar Italia by Vito de Biasi
Artforum by Stephen van Dyck
Dazed by Laura Pitcher
HyperAllergic by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Ocula by Noelle Perdue
Subway Takes with Kareem Rahma
Middlebrow (podcast) with Brian Park and Dan Rosen
Cultured by Jamieson Webster
Vanity Fair by Delia Cai
Walker Art Center’s The Gradient by Marie Hoejlund
Brooklyn Rail by Jenny Wu
Dazed by Liara Roux
PIN-UP edited by Emmanuel Olunkwa
Pioneer Works’s Broadcast by Salome Asega
High Snobiety by Fiona Duncan and Esra Padgett
Fast Company by Jarrett Fuller
Frieze by Lisa Yin Zhang
For a more personal interview, see this interview by Clémence Polès in Passerby

SELECTED PRAISE

“…a marker of Seu’s arrival as a public intellectual whose archiving was itself a form of activism.” — LA Times
“Her unusual power is the ability to move through different fields, Trojan-horsing her theories across academia, the art world, the lit scene, tech, fashion, et al.” — LA Times
“Mindy Seu might be changing the way public intellectuals get published.” — The Week
“Seu and the audience join forces to read citations aloud, transforming passive listening into “re-citation,” which embodies Seu’s philosophy of generously attributing sources and spreading information via word of mouth.” — Artforum
“Seu’s polished event achieved a certain kind of intimacy and a sense of collectivity; it also reminded us of how mediated and compromised connections facilitated by social media always are.” — Cultured
“While Seu lays bare the systems of power that have turned the utopian fantasy of the internet into a dystopian reality, her strategies hint at the potential for a shared, democratic, and maybe even hopeful experience that still exists at the shadowy edges of internet culture.” — HyperAllergic
“She is undoubtedly a gravitational personality.” — Institute of Network Cultures

TEACHING
In January 2024, I joined UCLA’s Design Media Arts Department (my alma mater) as tenured faculty. Prior to this, I was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers, and Critic at Yale School of Art. All of my classes and workshops can be seen on my teaching portal.

This website was last updated on 19 March 2026. View the previous update from 02 December 2025. In the meta-title, you’ll see that this website is in progress... I tweak it every so often, but the past several versions have used Prof. Dr. style for easy maintenance. Everything written by me on this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. You don’t need to ask permission to use it, but please give credit!