Lavine Lecture: CYBERFEMINISM INDEX Performative Book Reading & Discussion

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MIT List Visual Arts Center will host the book launch for designer and editor Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index

Bartos Theatre, MIT List Visual Arts Center

MIT List Visual Arts Center will host the book launch for designer and editor Mindy Seu’s CYBERFEMINISM INDEX. The event will feature a performative reading by Seu and conversation with Kendra Albert. In CYBERFEMINISM INDEX, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology. 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. Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art. Both a vital introduction for laypeople and a robust resource guide for educators, CYBERFEMINISM INDEX—an anti-canon, of sorts—celebrates the multiplicity of practices that fall under this imperfect categorization and makes visible cyberfeminism’s long-ignored origins and its expansive legacy. In partnership with the MIT Press BookstoreThis event is also a part of Cambridge Science Festival, a week-long, annual celebration of science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). A multifaceted, multicultural event, the Festival makes science accessible, interactive, and fun, highlighting the impact of STEAM in all our lives. This year’s festival features over 200 events and activities between September 25 - October 1, at more than 70 venues across the city and beyond. Every CSF event is free and open to the public — find out more at cambridgesciencefestival.org.

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