Cyberfeminism Index: Book Reading and Conversation with Mindy Seu, Laura Coombs and Lily Healey ’13

About the Guest Artists

Princeton Lecturer in Visual Arts Laura Coombs. Photo by Res.

Laura Coombs is a graphic designer based in New York City. Since 2017, she has been head of design at the New Museum, overseeing all design for the institution and its technology entities Rhizome and New Inc. Concurrently, Coombs operates an independent design practice focusing on the design of publications, exhibitions, and visual identity with institutions and publishers including MIT Press, Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, Carnegie Museum of Art, Lisson Gallery, and Verso Books, among others. Her design practice has received awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club (ADC), Brno Biennial, Type Directors Club (TDC), Tokyo TDC, and the Center for Book Arts. Her recent writing has been published in Sourcetype and The Serving Library Annual 2022/23. Coombs holds a B.Arch. from Cornell University and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Prize for excellence in art. She has lectured and given workshops at academic institutions including Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, the Yale School of Art, Strelka Institute, Southland Institute, Cooper Union, Maryland Institute College of Art, California College of the Arts, University of Southern California, Pratt Institute, Parsons, Werkplaats Typografie, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Yale School of Architecture. She is currently a Lecturer in Visual Arts at Princeton University, teaching the fall course, Graphic Design: Image.

Lily Healey, Princeton Class of ’13. Photo courtesy Lily Healey.

Lily Healey (Princeton Class of 2013) is a software developer at The New Yorker, where she is part of a team that creates tools for the editorial staff. These tools include: an application for planning and programming stories, a website for internal documentation, and a scripting suite that aids in the production of the print magazine. She previously worked as a designer/developer at O-R-G and as a quantitative analyst at a small hedge fund.

Mindy Seu, author of Cyberfeminism Index. Photo credit: Alexa Viscius

Mindy Seu is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded practice involves archival projects, techno-critical writing, performative lectures, design commissions, and close collaborations. Her latest writing surveys historical precursors of the metaverse and reveals the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art, was commissioned by Rhizome and presented at the New Museum in its online form, and its print form is a recipient of 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), among many others, and has been a resident at MacDowell, Sitterwerk Foundation, Pioneer Works, and Internet Archive. Seu holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and critic at Yale School of Art.