My guest today is Mindy Seu, a designer, researcher, and professor who has taught at Yale, Rutgers and UCLA.
Photo Credit: Mina Alyeshmerni
Mindy is the editor of the Cyberfeminism Index, in which “hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology.” Featuring more than 700 short entries of multimedia activism, the Index is a rich resource for anyone interested in technology, feminism, and the intersection between the two. Mindy is also one of the brilliant minds behind the Whole Earth Index, an incredible free resource offering digital versions of the many journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002 (as well as every issue of the catalogue itself)! To name just two of her many accomplishments and endeavours.
After Cyberfeminism Index was recommended by the publicist Gia Kuan on a previous episode of this very podcast, I knew I wanted to speak more with Mindy about her broad range of interests and ideas. Our conversation didn’t disappoint. In the interview, we cover everything from publishing as an art practice to TikTok restocking videos to the etymology of the word ‘ergonomic’. Mindy is a ferociously smart but gracious teacher and I learnt a lot from speaking with her. I hope you enjoy the episode.
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Thank you for reading,
Phoebe
MINDY SEU DEEP READING LIST
Cyberfeminism Index - Mindy Seu
“When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex, and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers, and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.”