Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American artist and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Her Work

From 1973-79 she made a pioneering work, "Roberta Breitmore". In this piece she lived as another identity who was created out of artifacts of that time frame. [Jori Finkel: [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/arts/design/27fink.html?pagewanted=print Pardon Me, but The Art is Mouthing Off] , New York Times, November 27, 2005.]

More recently, she has made feature films such as "Conceiving Ada" (1997). Her film "Teknolust" (2002) received the Alfred P. Sloan Award [The Internet Movie Database: [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380961/awards Lynn Hershman-Leeson - Awards] ] . Her most recent film, "Strange Culture" was the story of Steve Kurtz. The film was simultaneously screened at Sundance and webcast to Second Life on January 222007 [Second Front: [http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/01/hazardous-second-front-watches-strange.html Second Front watches "Strange Culture"] , January 26th, 2007] and has subsequently opened the Panorama Section of the Berlinale, and the Human Rights Watch Festival at Lincoln Center, and has played in numerous festivals including Locarno and Edinburgh. It will play at New York Museum of Modern Art and then open theatrically, going to DVD and playing on the Sundance Channel in December. It is being distributed worldwide by Cinemavault Releasing.

In 2000, Lynn Hershman Leeson received funding from the Daniel Langlois Foundation to produce "Agent Ruby" (2002) cite web
url = http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=167
title = Agent Ruby
accessmonthday = October 5
accessyear = 2006
author = Jacques Perron
publisher = Daniel Langlois Foundation
year = 2004] , and in 2006 she received another grant from the Foundation to produce "Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive" (2006) cite web
url = http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1829
title = Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive
accessmonthday = October 5
accessyear = 2006
author = Jacques Perron
publisher = Daniel Langlois Foundation
year = 2006] .

In 2004 Stanford University Libraries honored Hershman Leeson by acquiring her entire working archive from 1966 to 2002. The archive contains material related to all stages of her completed projects since the early 1970s, including preliminary conceptual research and drawings, technical specifications, media, correspondence, and photographs.

In the fall of 2005, the University of California Press published a monograph, "Secret Agents Private I, The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson".

Awards

In 1995, she received the Siemens-Medienkunstpreis award from the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany, a prize also presented that year to Jean Baudrillard, Peter Greenaway, and Steina and Woody Vasulka. In 1998, the Flintridge Foundation awarded her a prize honouring her whole career in visual arts. In 1999, she received the Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria cite web
url = http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=168
title = Lynn Hershman Leeson
accessmonthday = October 5
accessyear = 2006
author = Jean Gagnon
publisher = Daniel Langlois Foundation
year = 2006] .

References

External links

* [http://www.lynnhershman.com/ Lynn Hershman Leeson Home page]
* [http://www.gallerypauleanglim.com/hershman_lynn.html Lynn Hershman is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim]
* [http://www.bitforms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=91#id=28&num=1 Hershman is also represented by bitforms gallery]
* [http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?HERSHMANLE Lynn Hershman Leeson] in the [http://www.vdb.org/ Video Data Bank]
* [http://www.agentruby.com/ Agent Ruby web site]
* [http://www.lynnhershman.com/lfiles/Awards.pdf Selected awards] (PDF)
* [http://www.lynnhershman.com/lfiles/Exhibitions.pdf Selected exhibition history] (PDF)
* [http://www.lynnhershman.com/lfiles/FilmVideo.pdf Selected film and video history] (PDF)
* [http://www.lynnhershman.com/lfiles/Publications.pdf Selected publications] (PDF)
* [http://presence.stanford.edu:3455/Collaboratory/346 The Presence Project | Lynn Hershman Leeson ]
* [http://culturecatch.com/vidcast/lynn_hershman_leeson Lynn Hershman Leeson video interview at Culture Catch]