Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has made innovative work investigating the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. Her work is currently on view in Sixties Surreal. For this Walter Annenberg Lecture, Hershman Leeson presents a talk about her practice from the 1960s to the present. A conversation between the artist and Scott Rothkopf, Alice Pratt Brown Director, will follow the presentation.

Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941) lives and works in San Francisco, California. She is internationally acclaimed for her art and films and noted as one of the most influential media artists. Over the last forty years she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation, interactive and net-based media art.