Lynn Hershman Leeson

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Lynn Hershman Leeson is an American artist and filmmaker. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

She was also known as Roberta Breitmore, a character she played in a performance art piece in the 1970s.

More recently, she has made feminist feature films such as Conceiving Ada (1997). Her film Teknolust (2002) received the Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology at the Hamptons International Film Festival. [1] 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 22nd 2007.

In 2000, Lynn Hershman Leeson received funding from the Daniel Langlois Foundation to produce Agent Ruby (2002) ^[1], and in 2006 she received another grant from the Foundation to produce Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive (2006) ^[2].

[edit] 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 ^[3].

[edit] References

Stiles, Kristine.“1.1.78 - 2.2.78: Roberta Breitmore,” Roberta Breitmore Is Not Lynn Hershman (San Francisco: De Young Memorial Museum, 1978): 5-14.

^ Jacques Perron (2004). Agent Ruby. Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved on October 5, 2006.
^ Jacques Perron (2006). Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive. Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved on October 5, 2006.
^ Jean Gagnon (2006). Lynn Hershman Leeson. Daniel Langlois Foundation. Retrieved on October 5, 2006.