Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson (* 1941 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American artist and filmmaker . Her interdisciplinary work initiates feminist discourses and deals with questions of identity, technical innovations and the relationship between the two topics. In 2004 she was named the most influential woman in media art .
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Hershman's work covers a wide range of topics: above all identity in times of consumption, privacy in times of surveillance and control, the interface between man and machine, the relationship between the real and the virtual world. It outgrows traditional lines of installation art , performance art and photography and often implies the interactive moment, especially with regard to computer-aided media . Hershman has divided her oeuvre, which has now spanned 40 years, into two parts in terms of time and style: “Before Computers” (BC) and “After Digital” (AD), showing a media and material diversity of performance, video, drawing, collage, text-based Work on site-specific interventions ( Dante Hotel 1972). Due to her early and clairvoyant examination of digital innovations and interactive network-based works, she is considered a pioneer of media art. She was inspired not least by her former place of residence, San Francisco, with its suburb, Silicon Valley , which is still considered a center of innovation for new technology .
Through the people and fictional identities she created, she anticipated the avatar as a synthetic representative of real people within the virtual worlds of the Internet. From 1993 to 2004 she was Professor of Electronic Arts at the University of California at Davis. She lives and works in San Francisco and New York.
"My sense is that newly formed digital identities will be autonomous and unpredictable, with minds of their own, just like the best of us corporeal beings. Our task is to make friends with them. "
“I have a feeling that the recently formed digital identities will be autonomous and unpredictable, with their own mind, just like the best of us physical beings. Our job is to make friends with them. "
Winner of the DDAA ( DAM DIGITAL ART AWARD) 2010 for her life's work, her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at the Kunsthalle Bremen was dedicated to her in 2012 . In 2014 her large-scale retrospective opened at the ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe. Her works are represented in numerous well-known collections, including a. in the Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), in the Tate Modern (London, Great Britain), in the Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg) and in the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Roberta Breitmore
From 1974 to 1978, Hershman conceived, developed and lived in the fictional person Roberta Breitmore. This transformation was not limited to the physical appearance changed by clothing, make-up and wigs, but to the creation of an independent personality. According to Hershman, Roberta came into the world when she came to San Francisco by bus one day and checked into the Dante Hotel, with savings of $ 1,800, aged 30 and divorced. From then on, Hershman created a precisely pointed and traceable biography for her. a. in newspaper advertisements ranging from flatmate searches to blind dating attempts, letters, a driver's license and the minutes of meetings with the psychotherapist. Roberta Brightmore can be understood as a portrait study of a young woman on the west coast of America and as a study of the zeitgeist of the 1970s. Hershman locates the project as a private performance , as a time-bound sculpture and as a virtual or simulated role.
LORNA
LORNA is the name of a project from 1983 that was the first to be attributed to the field of Game Art . LORNA tells the story of a woman who suffers from agoraphobia . The audience can interactively determine the course and outcome of the story. LORNA never left her one-room apartment, the interior of which was very similar to that of the Dante Hotel from Roberta Breitmore. The television, which was the only one that wasn't in the Dante Hotel, had a great influence on LORNA. It establishes their connection to the outside world, but at the same time the messages and commercials they send frighten them too much to leave the house. It was the spectator's task to free LORNA from her fear cage. The items in the room furnishings were numbered. These objects were activated by pressing the corresponding number on the remote control. The fate of LORNA was literally in the hands of the active viewer. Each numbered object opened to a sequence of LORNA past and future conflicts. The narrative jumps, breaks and repetitions of the sequences are confusing, but at the same time testify to the state of mind of the leading actress. Occasional voyeuristic attitudes suggest the self-staging that a person pursues, whose only counterpart is himself. The outcome of the interactive, non-linear narrative remains open, but suggests three options: LORNA's suicide, the escape from the apartment or the shot not at yourself but at the television, which means victory over the medium and death same.
Movies
Hershman Leeson is an excellent screenwriter , director and producer . Her best-known films are Strange Culture , Teknolust , Passionate Calculation . These were part of the Sundance Film Festival , the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlinale . American actress Tilda Swinton starred in each of these three films.
"The films are all about loss and technology. Ada Lovelace invented computer language, but was never credited and was basically erased from history. Teknolust is about artificial intelligence clones: the bots that escape into reality and interact with human life, in effect a symbiosis between technological life and human life, and how the two can marry. Strange Culture again was about misidentity, where the media created a fictional character that they blame this crime on, rather than the actual person. All of these works are about erasure of identity and how technology adds to it and creates it. And how you can defeat that. "
“The films are all about loss and technology. Ada Lovelace invented computer language, but was never recognized for it and almost erased from history. Teknolust is about cloning with artificial intelligence: Robots flee into reality and interact with people there, creating a symbiosis between technical and human life. Strange culture , on the other hand, addresses false identities: the media create a fictional character that they - instead of the actual perpetrator - hold responsible for a crime. All of this work deals with the deletion of identities and the role technology plays in it. And how to prevent that. "
In 2011, Women Art Revolution , a documentary about the feminist art movement in the United States, was published .
In 2018 she was appointed to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for her work in the documentary film sector, which awards the Oscars every year.
Awards (selection)
- 1995: ZKM / Siemens Media Art Award
- 2008: Creative Capital Grant for! Women Art Revolution
- 2009: Individual Artist Commissions Award, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco
- 2009: Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts: Film
- 2009: Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH), New Orleans
- 2010: 4th Develop Digital Art Award (DDAA) for her life's work, presented by the Digital Art Museum in Berlin
- 2014: IFP Pixel Market Prize for the film The Infinity Engine with Tilda Swinton
- 2018: The Women's Caucus for Art, Lifetime Achievement Award
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2001: Media & Identity , UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside
- 2002: Lynn Hershaman , Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
- 2004: Lynn Hershman , bitforms Gallery, New York City
- 2005: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
- 2008: No Body Special , MH de Young Memorial Museum , San Francisco
- 2008: Lynn Hershman , Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
- 2011: Roberta Breitmore , Waldburger Gallery, Brussels
- 2012: Me as Roberta , Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow
- 2012: Seducing Time , Retrospective, Kunsthalle Bremen
- 2012: WAR Documentary screening , Moderna Museet , Stockholm
- 2013: Agent Ruby Files , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMa), San Francisco
- 2013–2014: New Acquisitions in Photography , Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York
- 2014: Pop Departures , Seattle Art Museum , Seattle
- 2014: How to Disappear , Aanant & Zoo, Berlin
- 2014: Taking a Stand Against War , Lehmbruck-Museum , Duisburg
- 2014: Playback , AUTOCENTER, Berlin
- 2014–2015: Civic Radar , Lynn Hershman Leeson - The Retrospective, Falckenberg Collection , Hamburg and ZKM , Karlsruhe
- 2015: Modern Art Oxford, Great Britain
- 2016: Liquid Identities - Lynn Hershman Leeson. Identities in the 21st Century , Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg (group exhibition with younger artists in collaboration with the ZKM )
- 2017: Remote Control
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2018–2019 Feminist Avant-garde / Art of the 1970s SAMMLUNG VERBUND Collection, Vienna , The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic.
- 2017–2018 Feminist avant-garde of the 1970s from the Verbund collection, Vienna . ZKM , Karlsruhe, DE.
Films (selection)
- 1986-1994: Electronic Diaries
- 1997: Passionate calculation (Conceiving Ada)
- 2002: Teknolust
- 2007: Strange Culture
- 2011 :! Women Art Revolution
Publications
- Andreas F. Beitin , Sarah Happersberger, Lisa Herzog, Linnea Semmerling, Stephan Schwingeler: Lynn Hershman Leeson. Civic Radar , published by the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, brochure for the exhibition of the same name 2015/2015, Karlsruhe 2014, brochure in German and English , accessed on January 18, 2015.
- Elizabeth Derecktor: Lynn Hershman . In: Connecting Conversations: Interviews with 28 Bay Area Women Artists , edited by Moira Roth, 86–92. Oakland, Calif .: Eucalyptus Press, Mills College, 1988.
- Lynn Hershman: Reflections on the Electric Mirror . In: New Artists Video: A Critical Anthology , edited by Gregory Battcock, 36–39. New York: Dutton, 1978.
- Lynn Hershman Leeson: Clicking . In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture . Seattle: Bay Press, 1996.
- Meredith Tromble: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I . Berkeley: University of California Press; Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 2005.
Web links
- Lynn Hershman Leeson in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website
- "Agent Ruby"
- Lynn Hershman Leeson at Kadist Art Foundation
- Lynn Hershman Leeson at Waldburger Wouters, Brussels
- Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson on July 28, 2014
- Monopoly: Article on Lynn Hershman Leeson's exhibition at Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, July 31, 2014
- Essay on Hershman Leeson and the work "Life Squared"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://concordia.ca/journals/leonardo/v038/38.3hershmanleeson.pdf
- ↑ a b http://www.lynnhershman.com/files/lynnhershman-bio-2012.pdf
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated August 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lynn Hershman Leeson - Lorna . Lynnhershman.com. February 23, 2011. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
- ↑ http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/lorna/images/1/
- ↑ http://www.leoalmanac.org/hacking-the-codes-of-self-representation-lea-magazine-article
- ↑ Academy invites 928 to Membersphip . In: oscars.org (accessed June 26, 2018).
- ↑ http://dam.org/artists/phase-three/lynn-hershman-leeson/biography
- ^ Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award . In: Wikipedia . February 4, 2019 ( nationalwca.org [accessed April 27, 2019]). Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ bridget donahue Galler y
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hershman-Leeson, Lynn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leeson, Lynn Hershman |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American artist and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cleveland , Ohio, United States |