{{short description|American designer and academic (born 1991)}} {{Infobox person/Wikidata | fetchwikidata = ALL }} '''Mindy Seu''' (born 1991) is an American designer, researcher and technologist whose work focuses on public engagement with digital archives.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Mindy Seu {{!}} Berkman Klein Center|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/mindy-seu|date=2020-03-24|website=cyber.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Discover Harvard student Mindy Seu's research-focused design practice|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/mindy-seu-graphic-design-130318|website=www.itsnicethat.com|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> She is best known for her ''Cyberfeminism Index'' project and publications, and is currently on the faculty at UCLA's Design Media Arts Department. <ref>{{cite web |title=Mindy Seu {{!}} Design Media Arts |url=https://dma.ucla.edu/people/mindy-seu |website=dma.ucla.edu |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Seu grew up in Orange County, California, where her parents ran a flower shop after immigrating from South Korea.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Cai |first=Delia |date=2023-12-11 |title=For Mindy Seu, Digital Archiving Isn't Just a Job—It's a Lifestyle |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/mindy-seu-cyberfeminism-index |access-date=2023-12-21 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Poles |first=Clemence |date=2023-09-28 |title=Meet Mindy Seu |url=http://passerbymagazine.com/profiles/mindy-seu |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=passerby magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Design Media Arts in 2013 and later graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design with an M.Des in 2019.<ref name=":0" />
==Career== After graduating from UCLA, Seu worked at the Museum of Modern Art's Design Studio, as well as the design studio 2x4 on the Interactive Media team.<ref name=":6" /> She also taught at the California College of the Arts, and published her own archival projects, including the web-based archive of Avant Garde Magazine and a digitization of Emmett Williams' 1968 concrete poem ''Sweethearts''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=People Finder - California College of the Arts - Portal|url=https://portal.cca.edu/people/mindyseu/|website=portal.cca.edu|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Mindy Seu|url=https://www.newinc.org/year-6-members/mindy-seu|website=NEW INC|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref>
From 2017 to 2018, Seu published the web archives for Eros and Fact magazines, completing the digitization of Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin's iconic publications.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Mindy Seu on Making the Things You Want to See|url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/mindy-seu-on-making-the-things-you-want-to-see/|website=thecreativeindependent.com|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web|title=Lubalin's Radical '60s Magazines Are Giving Us A Lesson in Archiving on the Web|url=https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/lubalins-radical-60s-magazines-are-giving-us-a-lesson-in-archiving-on-the-web/|date=2018-06-27|website=Eye on Design|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> In 2018, Seu also became a fellow at the Internet Archive and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Get to Know Berkman Klein Fellow Mindy Seu {{!}} Berkman Klein Center|url=https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2018-11/get-know-berkman-klein-fellow-mindy-seu|date=2019-01-18|website=cyber.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Decentralized Web Summit 2018: Global Visions / Working Code|url=https://www.decentralizedweb.net/|website=www.decentralizedweb.net|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> Starting in 2019, she began work on an archive of cyberfeminism, which later received the Design Studies Thesis Prize from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Cyberfeminism Catalog 1990–2020|url=https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/project/cyberfeminism-catalog-1990-2020/|website=Harvard Graduate School of Design|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-19}}</ref> Seu's Cyberfeminism Catalog project began as a spreadsheet, a medium she often employs for its legibility and longevity, and was supported by Rhizome and a grant from the Graham Foundation.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Mindy Seu - MacDowell Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/mindy-seu |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=MacDowell |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sholis |first=Brian |date=2020-05-11 |title=Citation Needed |url=https://magazine.frontier.is/p/citation-needed |access-date=2020-05-19 |website=Frontier Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Mindy Seu |url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6259-cyberfeminism-catalog |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=www.grahamfoundation.org}}</ref> The project was exhibited virtually through the New Museum in 2020<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=First Look: Cyberfeminism Index |url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/first-look-cyberfeminism-index |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=New Museum Exhibitions |language=en}}</ref> and ultimately published as a 700-page print book, ''Cyberfeminism Index,'' in January 2023. ''Cyberfeminism Index'' featured contributions from academics and collectives including VNS Matrix, Donna Haraway, Legacy Russell, Sadie Plant, and the Old Boys Network.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Varghese |first=Sanjana |date=2023-03-09 |title=With 'Cyberfeminism Index,' Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement |url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2023/03/mindy-seu-cyberfeminism-index-feminism-technology-literature-book-release-interview/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Document Journal |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wu |first=Jenny |date=2023-04-01 |title=Mindy Seu's Cyberfeminism Index |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2023/04/art_books/Mindy-Seus-Cyberfeminism-Index |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=The Brooklyn Rail |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Roux |first=Liara |date=2023-01-24 |title=Mindy Seu: cyberfeminism 'has shifted from utopia to dystopia' |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/58024/1/the-cyberfeminism-index-mindy-seu-liara-roux |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref>
In 2022, Seu received a MacDowell Fellowship.<ref name=":7" /> She has previously served as an assistant professor at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts, and as a critic at Yale School of Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Designer and technologist Mindy Seu to speak about origins and legacy of cyberfeminism Oct. 18 via Zoom – College of Design |url=https://www.design.iastate.edu/news/2023/09/mindy-seu-lecture/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=Iowa State University |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Juniper |date=2023-02-15 |title="The Translation of Cyberfeminism": A Talk with Mindy Seu |url=https://cssh.northeastern.edu/nulab/cyberfeminism-index/ |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks |language=en-us}}</ref><ref name=":7" />
She is currently serving as an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Design Media Arts Department.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mindy Seu's CV - Teaching |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzFlNWeY9CgeSBaMwSTUzXaR2hJ9BKH--13CoBZaXlk/edit?gid=310862801#gid=310862801 |website=MINDY-SEU_CV-tabs |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mindy Seu |url=https://mindyseu.com/ |website=mindyseu.com |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref> She is also curating an exhibition titled ''Cantando Bajito: Chorus'' at the Ford Foundation Gallery<ref>{{cite web |title=Cantando Bajito: Chorus |url=https://www.fordfoundation.org/about/the-ford-foundation-center-for-social-justice/ford-foundation-gallery/exhibitions/cantando-bajito-chorus/ |website=Ford Foundation Gallery |date=8 October 2024 |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mindy Seu's CV - Residencies, Grants and Shows |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzFlNWeY9CgeSBaMwSTUzXaR2hJ9BKH--13CoBZaXlk/edit?gid=805278581#gid=805278581 |website=MINDY-SEU_CV-tabs |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref> and developing a series of lecture performance pieces titled ''A Sexual History of the Internet'', in collaboration with Julio Correa.<ref>{{cite web |title=Teledildonic Index: The Instagram stories lecture. |url=https://dirt.fyi/article/2024/08/teledildonic-index |website=dirt.fyi |date=26 August 2024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mindy Seu's CV - Performances |url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AzFlNWeY9CgeSBaMwSTUzXaR2hJ9BKH--13CoBZaXlk/edit?gid=957825167#gid=957825167 |website=MINDY SEU_CV-tabs |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref>
==Selected works==
*Sweethearts (2013)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Are.na / The Poetry of Tools|url=https://www.are.na/blog/the-poetry-of-tools|website=www.are.na|date=10 August 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref> *Avant Garde Archive (2014)<ref name=":4" /> *Eros Archive (2017)<ref name=":4" /> *Fact Archive (2018)<ref name=":5" /> *''Cyberfeminism Catalog: 1990–2020'' (2019–)<ref name=":3" /> *''Cyberfeminism Index'' (2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=Cyberfeminism Index with Mindy Seu |url=https://www.spacecityseattle.org/comingup/cyberfeminism-index |website=spacecityseattle.org |date=15 June 2023 |access-date=20 November 2024}}</ref> *''A sexual history of the Internet'' (2025)
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://110west40th.com Avant Garde, Eros and Fact Magazine archives] * [https://cyberfeminismindex.com/ Cyberfeminist Index] * [https://asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com/ A sexual history of the internet]
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