Mindy Seu appointed to the faculty of the Department of Design Media Arts
UCLA Arts welcomes a new faculty member, effective Jan. 1, 2024 — Mindy Seu ‘13 has joined the Department of Design Media Arts as associate professor.
Mindy is a designer and technologist. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, and design commissions. Her latest writing surveys feminist economies, historical precursors of the metaverse, and the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome, presented at the New Museum, and awarded a Graham Foundation Grant.
She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (Barbican Centre, New Museum), academic institutions (Columbia University, Central Saint Martins), and mainstream platforms (Pornhub, SSENSE, Google), and been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Her design commissions and consultation include projects for the Serpentine Gallery, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and MIT Media Lab.
Her work has been featured in Frieze, Vanity Fair, Dazed, Gagosian Quarterly, Brooklyn Rail, i-D, and more.
For her first quarter, Mindy will be teaching Intro to Typography and an M.F.A. seminar on the lecture performance called “Performing Lectures.” In Spring, she will teach Senior Capstone for thesis projects and the M.F.A. critique class.
Mindy holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from UCLA.
Header image: A photo portrait of Mindy Seu. (Alexa Viscius)
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