This eponymous artist book is published alongside A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. For more information about this performance and tour, please visit https://asexualhistoryoftheinternet.com/.

THIS BOOK IS A HISTORY. It gathers anecdotes, artworks, and historical artifacts that reveal the pervasive and perverted origins of our digital tools.

THIS BOOK IS A SCRIPT. It documents A Sexual History of the Internet, a participatory lecture performance told through the audience’s phones. It is a polyvocal story, whose citations are read aloud by the audience — performance as re-citation.

THIS BOOK IS AN EXPERIMENT. This book is a fiscal experiment of redistribution. In it, you’ll find citations by 45 people who have shaped my understanding of the internet, sex, and sexual technologies. When you buy this book, they will split a percentage of profits. We call this experiment “Citational Splits,” a new model of attribution.

This Metalabel release makes available 5000 first-edition copies of the book.

Artist, Author: Mindy Seu Designer: Laura Coombs Editor: Meg Miller Collaborator: Julio Correa Illustrator: Ven Qiu Timecodes Scripting: Jon Gacnik Videographer: Gabriel Noguez 3D Artist: Tom Hancocks Website Support: Charles Broskoski Metalabel: Yancey Strickler Consultant: Gia Kuan Printer: DZA

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.