Research Talk: Making a Cyberfeminist Index

Abstract

The internet has always been feminist, just rarely archived that way. Mindy Seu presents Cyberfeminism Index, a collaborative, crowd-sourced project that gathers decades of feminist tech activism, art, and theory while challenging who gets remembered online and how digital histories are written.

In this talk, artist and technologist Mindy Seu introduces Cyberfeminism Index, a living, crowd-sourced project that gathers over three decades of feminist net art, online activism, theory, and critical technology practices from around the world. What began as a personal bibliography grew into a website, a book, and a performative publishing project that challenges traditional archives and canons.

Seu will reflect on the evolution of the Cyberfeminism Index across media, from spreadsheet to website to printed book activated through performance and augmented reality and discuss indexing as a feminist method: one that values multiplicity over mastery, citation over authorship, and openness over closure. Drawing on examples from the project, the talk explores cyberfeminism as a “critical use of technology” and asks how we might collectively document internet culture in ways that resist erasure, overload, and techno-dystopian narratives.

How do we document internet histories that were never meant to be official, stable, or singular? And how do feminist practices of citation, collaboration, and care reshape what knowledge looks like online? This talk will be of interest to anyone working at the intersection of design, technology, feminism, archives, publishing, and digital culture.

In collaboration with the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit.

About the speaker

Mindy Seu (b. 1991, California) is an artist and technologist based in Los Angeles and New York City whose practice focuses on technology-driven performance and publication. 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.