Lynn Hershman Leeson

Overview

Since the 1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson has worked prolifically across media to reveal and intervene on the technological infrastructures of our social world. Using sculpture, film, video, installation, performance, drawing, painting, net art, and experiments with interactive technologies like CCTV and online interfaces, Hershman Leeson repurposes the content and form of mainstream media to provocatively investigate identity, surveillance, and the role of media subcultures in resisting censorship and political oppression. Hershman Leeson has been at the forefront of artistic technological experimentation since her earliest works, incorporating touch screen technology as early as the 1980s, artificially intelligent voice recognition in the early 2000s, and biotechnology throughout the 2010s.