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Also known as Lynn Hershman Lesson, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Lynn Lester Hershman, Lynn Hershman, Lynn Lester, Lynn L. Hershman

American artist and filmmaker (born 1941)

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It is catalogued under topics including 1941 births, 21st-century American women artists and American digital artists.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1941
Works
4

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Film & TV

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and…

Known for

  • Tell Them We Were Here — Self2021
  • !W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution — Herself2010
  • Life Squared — Narrator2007
  • Conceiving Ada — CD Rom (Voice)1999
  • CyberBaby — Herself1998
  • Twists in the Cord (or) … Other Extensions of the Telephone1994
  • Desire Inc.1990

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Total plays
37

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Lynn Hershman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1941. She studied at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (B.S.1963) and at San Francisco State University (M.A. 1972). She resides in San Francisco and is Professor of Electronic Art at the University of California, Davis. In the early 1980's, she pioneered in the use of interactive media as a tool for artistic work. Hershman has won numerous awards worldwide. Most recently, she was nominated for the 1995 Siemens-Medienkunstpreis, awarded by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien-technologie in Germany. The Raw Data Diet, All-Consuming Bodies and the Shape of Things to... by Margaret Morse. Virtually Yours, 1995. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1995. by Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin. Persona, 1981. New York: The New Museum, 1981.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lynn
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Cleveland
Occupation
draftsperson
Field of work
identity
Movement
feminist art
Official website
www.lynnhershman.com
Image
Lynn Hershman Leeson Portrait.jpg
Residence
New York City
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date of birth
1941-06-17
Commons category
Lynn Hershman Leeson
birth name
Lynn Lester Hershman
floruit
2014-00-00
start of work period
1961-01-01
end of work period
2016-01-01
described at URL
vtape.org/artist?ai=5
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