Mindy Seu Explained

Mindy Seu (born 1991) is an American designer and researcher whose work focuses on public engagement with digital archives.[1] [2] She is best known for her Cyberfeminism Index project and publications, and is currently on the faculty at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and also teaches at the Yale School of Art.[3] [4]

Early life and education

Seu grew up in Orange County, California, where her parents ran a flower shop after immigrating from South Korea.[5] [6] 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.

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. 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.[7] [8]

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.[9] [10] In 2018, Seu also became a fellow at the Internet Archive and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society.[11] [12] 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.[13] 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.[14] [15] [16] The project was exhibited virtually through the New Museum in 2020[17] 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.[18] [19] [20]

In 2022, Seu received a MacDowell Fellowship. She also serves as an assistant professor at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts, and as a critic at Yale School of Art.[21] [22]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mindy Seu Berkman Klein Center. 2020-03-24. cyber.harvard.edu. en. 2020-05-19.
  2. Web site: Discover Harvard student Mindy Seu's research-focused design practice. www.itsnicethat.com. en. 2020-05-19.
  3. Web site: Mindy Seu Mason Gross School of the Arts. www.masongross.rutgers.edu. 2020-05-19.
  4. Web site: Mindy Seu. Yale School of Art. en. 2020-05-19.
  5. Cai . Delia . 2023-12-11 . For Mindy Seu, Digital Archiving Isn't Just a Job—It's a Lifestyle . 2023-12-21 . Vanity Fair . en-US.
  6. Web site: Poles . Clemence . 2023-09-28 . Meet Mindy Seu . 2023-12-21 . passerby magazine . en-US.
  7. Web site: People Finder - California College of the Arts - Portal. portal.cca.edu. 2020-05-19.
  8. Web site: Mindy Seu. NEW INC. en-US. 2020-05-19.
  9. Web site: Mindy Seu on Making the Things You Want to See. thecreativeindependent.com. 2020-05-19.
  10. Web site: Lubalin's Radical '60s Magazines Are Giving Us A Lesson in Archiving on the Web. 2018-06-27. Eye on Design. en-US. 2020-05-19.
  11. Web site: Get to Know Berkman Klein Fellow Mindy Seu Berkman Klein Center. 2019-01-18. cyber.harvard.edu. en. 2020-05-19.
  12. Web site: Decentralized Web Summit 2018: Global Visions / Working Code. www.decentralizedweb.net. 2020-05-20.
  13. Web site: Cyberfeminism Catalog 1990–2020. Harvard Graduate School of Design. en-US. 2020-05-19.
  14. Web site: Mindy Seu - MacDowell Fellow in Interdisciplinary Arts . 2023-12-21 . MacDowell . en.
  15. Web site: Sholis . Brian . 2020-05-11 . Citation Needed . 2020-05-19 . Frontier Magazine . en-US.
  16. Web site: Graham Foundation > Grantees > Mindy Seu . 2023-12-21 . www.grahamfoundation.org.
  17. Web site: 2020 . First Look: Cyberfeminism Index . 2023-12-21 . New Museum Exhibitions . en.
  18. Web site: Varghese . Sanjana . 2023-03-09 . With 'Cyberfeminism Index,' Mindy Seu snapshots a mutating movement . 2023-12-21 . Document Journal . en-US.
  19. Web site: Wu . Jenny . 2023-04-01 . Mindy Seu's Cyberfeminism Index . 2023-12-21 . The Brooklyn Rail . en-US.
  20. Web site: Roux . Liara . 2023-01-24 . Mindy Seu: cyberfeminism 'has shifted from utopia to dystopia' . 2023-12-21 . Dazed . en.
  21. Web site: Designer and technologist Mindy Seu to speak about origins and legacy of cyberfeminism Oct. 18 via Zoom – College of Design . 2023-12-21 . Iowa State University . en-US.
  22. Web site: Johnson . Juniper . 2023-02-15 . "The Translation of Cyberfeminism": A Talk with Mindy Seu . 2023-12-21 . NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks . en-us.
  23. Web site: Are.na / The Poetry of Tools. www.are.na. 10 August 2017 . en-US. 2020-05-20.

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