Lynn Hershman Leeson

5 Key Works That Chart the Digital Art Revolution
Category
Article
Date
Mar 17, 2016
Source
Artspace
Author
Mat Smith
Excerpt

In this installation, you sit in “Lorna’s apartment” and watch a TV on which an apparently agoraphobic woman is shown applying makeup and going about her daily tasks. Flip through the channels, and you might even come across her fiddling with a gun. After a while, the experience becomes a little unnerving—you start to wonder if this person, or a representation of her, will come in and blast you away. The piece was originally conceived as a comment on the sanitizing effect of TV. Viewed in this context however, it seems to anticipate the immersive illusions of virtual reality…

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