Gray Area Grand Theater: Mindy Seu – A Sexual History of the Internet

A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET reveals the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools. How have technologies shaped and been shaped by sexuality? Together, we will examine the relationships between techno-development and sexuality, innovation and autonomy, lust and extraction.

In this participatory lecture performance, citations are read aloud by you, the audience, through a shared script on your mobile device. It is a performance of re-citation.

Credits:
Designer: Laura Coombs
Editor: Meg Miller
Lecture Format Collaborator: Julio Correa
Illustrator: Ven Qiu
Timecode Scripting: Jon Gacnik
Videographer: Gabriel Noguez
3D Artist: Tom Hancocks
Website Support: Charles Broskoski
Metalabel: Yancey Strickler, Lena Imamura

This Instagram-Stories-as-Lecture format was first conceived of by Julio Correa in Seu’s Lecture Performance studio course (Fall 2023) at Yale School of Art. Seu further developed this format, in collaboration with Correa, for “A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET”.