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.

By Daniela Janser in Woz

"At the entrance to the exhibition by Lynn Hershman at the Basle House of Electronic Arts (HeK) we visitors are supposed to put on a white lab coat. “So you can better put yourself in the picture,” explains the friendly woman at the cash ...

The War, Which is in the Flower Bouquet

By Moses Hubbard in Sleek

"Lynn Hershman Leeson takes immersive installation to the next level with a Berlin show centred around a fake, chromosome-hungry scientist."

This Dystopian Art Show Lets You Snoop Around a Strangers Hotel Room in Exchange For Your DNA

By Mathias Balzer in BZ Basel

"Is this art or more a science presentation? Surely it is a good, elaborate and cleverly presented research. And it is not just a scientist, but an artist who shows the material from so many different perspectives and plays it blatantly."

The Grande Dame and The Anti-Body

By Eana Kim for New York University

"One of the most influential media artists of our time, Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941, Ohio) has explored the newest technologies including artificial intelligence and their relationships with human over a fifty-year career."

Embodiments of Autonomous Entities: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Artificially Intelligent Robots, Agent Ruby and DiNA

Published in The Art Newspaper

"Two other works in the show, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s CybeRoberta (1995-96) and Tillie, the Telerobotic Doll (1995-98), are a pair of toys with concealed surveillance cameras that can be controlled by visitors in the gallery or ...

The Dark Web, Surveillance Dolls and Van Gogh’s Zombie Ear: Technology’s Role in Art Debated at Boston Conference

By Alex Jen in Hyperallergic

"And the indifferent reactions to Lynn Hershman Leeson’s surveillance doll “CybeRoberta” (1995–1996), impossible to anticipate when the piece was constructed, are both notably ironic and ominously specific to our time: visitors take ...

How the Nebulous Internet Has Influenced Art Since 1989

By Meritxell Rosell in Clot

"Hershman Leeson began working with concepts around cyborgs as early as 1962 (we could say planting a fertile seed for Donna Haraway’s 1975 essay ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’). In the 1990s, she started working with the themes of artificial ...

LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON & Thomas Huber, Anti-Body or Antibody?

By Karen Archey in Waldburger Wouters

"Maria, the evil, working class, communist cyborg, has long been a key influence for the artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose artwork has for decades explored the relationship between the body, both human and non-human, and ...

Karen Archey on Lynn Hershman Leeson

By Arshy Azizi in Topical Cream

"The fictional character first came into existence five years prior when she checked into Dante Hotel in San Francisco. During the following years, Breitmore would be granted her own bank account, credit card, and apartment, and ...

Harvesting Anti-bodies With Lynn Hershman Leeson

Published in Blouin Art Info

"The exhibition has on display both new and rarely seen multimedia works, as well as film, painting, sculpture, photography, and drawings by more than 70 artists."

Internet & Art: A History at Maat, Portugal

By Yves Geng in TeleBasel

"In the first Swiss exhibition by Hershman-Leeson, the HeK focuses on the new biotechnological developments. Thus, among other things, regenerative medicine, genetic research and antibody research are discussed."

Between Art and Artificial Life

By Jens Hinrichsen in Monopol

“'When people sit down on the bank of the gallery, they often imitate Kim Novak,' says the artist, who shot 35 short film clips with three Madeleine doubles at various “Vertigo” locations and integrated them into the installation."

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