Lynn Hershman Leeson
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The following is an archive of written works related to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s career, important exhibitions, and Civic Radar, the most comprehensive exhibition and catalogue of her work to date. It also includes a selection of essays that expose the philosophical underpinnings of Hershman Leeson’s work, written by the artist herself. Text from earlier in the artist’s career is being added over time.
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By Carla Gannis in Right Click Save
"Throughout her career, Lynn Hershman Leeson has charted a course ahead of her time, exploring the fluid nature of identity while navigating its shifts within socio-technical and scientific frameworks. Over the course of six ...
"Throughout her career, Lynn Hershman Leeson has charted a course ahead of her time, exploring the fluid nature of identity while navigating its shifts within socio-technical and scientific frameworks. Over the course of six ...
The Interview: Lynn Hershman Leeson
By Evan Moffitt in The New York Times
Curators and conservators are working to save — and update — art made with aging hardware.
Curators and conservators are working to save — and update — art made with aging hardware.
What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?
By Evan Moffit in Eyebeam
"'Technology is neutral,' the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson told MoMA Magazine last July. 'We invent these things, and as humans we give it meaning. So, if humans are utopian, then the technology will be also. And if humans are greedy, and ...
"'Technology is neutral,' the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson told MoMA Magazine last July. 'We invent these things, and as humans we give it meaning. So, if humans are utopian, then the technology will be also. And if humans are greedy, and ...
Get Real
Published in Times Online
"The first, coming to Te Tuhi from an international exhibition in Venice, Italy, is Logic Paralyzes the Heart, a multi-media installation by acclaimed American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson..."
"The first, coming to Te Tuhi from an international exhibition in Venice, Italy, is Logic Paralyzes the Heart, a multi-media installation by acclaimed American artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson..."
Exhibitions explore evolving human perception
By Gregory Zinman in The Criterion Collection
"Brimming with a digital sheen and commercial-worthy flat lighting by cinematographer Hiro Narita, Teknolust holds a gently ironic embrace of techno-optimism about (pro)creativity and the feminist possibilities for ...
"Brimming with a digital sheen and commercial-worthy flat lighting by cinematographer Hiro Narita, Teknolust holds a gently ironic embrace of techno-optimism about (pro)creativity and the feminist possibilities for ...
The Replacements: AI in the Movies
By Cláudio Alves in The Film Experience
"This cinematic tasting menu of techno-cinema offers many gustative possibilities, though none more surprising than Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Teknolust. Criminally underseen upon its 2002/2003 release, the unorthodox comedy ...
"This cinematic tasting menu of techno-cinema offers many gustative possibilities, though none more surprising than Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Teknolust. Criminally underseen upon its 2002/2003 release, the unorthodox comedy ...
Teknolust: Four Tildas is better than One
By Silvia Hernando in El Pais
"La artista Lynn Hershman Leeson lleva décadas experimentando con el cíborg, ese ser nacido del matrimonio del humano y la máquina."
"La artista Lynn Hershman Leeson lleva décadas experimentando con el cíborg, ese ser nacido del matrimonio del humano y la máquina."
Naturalmente artificial
Published in The Gaurdian
With 200 works by 71 female artists, a new exhibition of pioneering photography was ‘too quiet and poetic’ to be properly appreciated in the 1970s.
With 200 works by 71 female artists, a new exhibition of pioneering photography was ‘too quiet and poetic’ to be properly appreciated in the 1970s.
Sister acts: when the avant garde met feminism – in pictures
By Steve Seid
"… a provisional curatorial platform called The Floating Museum in which by the-seat-of-her-pants, the-sparest-of-resources, and the-tenacity-of-radical-vision, Lynn harnessed the energy of literally hundreds of artists..."
"… a provisional curatorial platform called The Floating Museum in which by the-seat-of-her-pants, the-sparest-of-resources, and the-tenacity-of-radical-vision, Lynn harnessed the energy of literally hundreds of artists..."
Let It Float: Steve Seid on The Floating Museum
By Tim Schneider in Artnet
"Lynn Hershman Leeson has been working at the forefront of technology and feminism for nearly six decades. In the late 1960s, her practice began incorporating a motif called the water woman, a silhouette of Hershman Leeson’s own body ...
"Lynn Hershman Leeson has been working at the forefront of technology and feminism for nearly six decades. In the late 1960s, her practice began incorporating a motif called the water woman, a silhouette of Hershman Leeson’s own body ...
The Most Boundary-Pushing Artworks at Art Basel, From a Transcendent Mark Lecky Video to a Poignant Arthur Jafa Work
By Jonathon Keats in Forbes
“What then to make of a binding site encoding Lynn Hershman’s name, guiding an antibody that gently binds to most everything? Hershman’s antibody doesn’t have much in common with conventional depictions of the immune system as a ...
“What then to make of a binding site encoding Lynn Hershman’s name, guiding an antibody that gently binds to most everything? Hershman’s antibody doesn’t have much in common with conventional depictions of the immune system as a ...
Creating Portraits Using Dna Forensics, an Artist Turns Police Into the Suspects
By Courtney Malick in Topical Cream
“The Venice debut of the artist’s video installation, Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2022), has won her a distinguished special mention from the Biennale’s jury, confirming the entangled and all-encompassing narratives that she so ...
“The Venice debut of the artist’s video installation, Logic Paralyzes the Heart (2022), has won her a distinguished special mention from the Biennale’s jury, confirming the entangled and all-encompassing narratives that she so ...