[spectre] Woman, Art & Technology: Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Mon Jan 9 12:18:30 CET 2012


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Woman, Art & Technology: Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson.

By Rachel Beth Egenhoefer.

Woman, Art & Technology is a new series of interviews on Furtherfield. 
Over the next year Rachel Beth Egenhoefer will interview artists, 
designers, theorists, curators, and others; to explore different 
perspectives on the current voice of woman working in art and 
technology. "I am honored to begin this series with an interview with 
Lynn Hershman Leeson, a true pioneer in the field who has recently 
produced !Women Art Revolution- A Secret History."

Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson 
has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new 
technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as 
key to the working of our society: identity in a time of consumerism, 
privacy in a era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, 
and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. She has been 
honored by numerous prestigious awards including the 2010-2011 d.velop 
digital art and 2009 SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement Awards. Hershman also 
recently received the 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 
Fellowship, an award which supported her latest documentary film !Women 
Art Revolution - A Secret History.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/woman-art-technology-interview-lynn-hershman-leeson

Egenhoefer’s artistic work has been exhibited both locally and 
internationally in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, London, 
Beijing, Madrid, and more. Her work has been included in major 
exhibitions such as the Options 2002 Biennial in Washington DC, the 2003 
Boston Cyber Arts Festival, ISEA 2004 in Tallinn Estonia, La Noche en 
Blanco in Madrid, and at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC, 
The Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London, The Banff Centre for 
the Arts, Lighthouse Brighton in the UK, and many others.

As a designer Egenhoefer’s work can be seen on Regina Spektor’s Begin To 
Hope Album (Warner Brothers, 2006), as well as in both local and 
international publications such as Art Forum, The San Francisco 
Chronicle, and others. Rachel Beth worked for two consecutive seasons as 
the Web and Program Manager at Yerba Buena Arts & Events/ Yerba Buena 
Gardens Festival in San Francisco designing programs, banners, and web 
content for the non-profit organization that provides free arts 
programming to the city. http://www.rachelbeth.net/


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