Lynn Hershman Leeson
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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.
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Biography
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.
Filmography
- Conceiving Ada (1997)
- Teknolust (2002)
- Strange Culture (2007)
Other Works
- 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.
- In the autumn 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 .
- Awarded funding in 2000 from the Daniel Langlois Foundation to produce Agent Ruby (2002) , and in 2006 she received another grant from the Foundation to produce Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive (2006)
- In 2002, Teknolust received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for its focus on science and technology
