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Artist: Lynn Hershman ( United States ) -
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Main Category: Computer Art
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Genres: Contemporary American Art
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Biography: The 21st century arrived with a Pandora's box of ideas, tools and technologies such as genetics, nanotechnology and robotics that will affect the destiny of the human race. Our relationship to computer based virtual life forms that are autonomous and self-replicating will shape the fate of our species and seem to me to be a critical issue of our time.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with counterfeit representations of life. As early as 1956, before I knew the terminology of cyborgian discourse, I made drawings, paintings, sculptures and photocopied images about the integration of humans and machines which can result in what I term techno-human identity.
I have worked in photography, video, installation and interactive and online art. My fifty-three videos and seven interactive installations have won many international awards. My body of work addresses the social construction of female identity and related issues of social conditioning, most often through the narrative construct of an alter ego or "agent."
I have always been attracted to digital tools and cinematic metaphors that reflect our time, such as privacy in an era of surveillance, personal identity in a time of pervasive manipulation, and finally, have a passion to pursue ideas of identity, memory, history, fiction-fact, and gender issues that are released by forms and genres represented by digital technology and on reflection, perhaps glimpse into the mirror of our culture .
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Exhibition History: Lynn Hershman has worked in film, photography, video, installation, interactive and net based works. She has had over 200 exhibitions internationally, completed 53 videotapes, 8 interactive installations, 3 web based installations and two feature films and edited the book "Clicking In". She was given the ZKM Media Arts Award was a Flintridge Fellow for Lifetime Achievements in the Visual Arts, received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination, Received in 1999 the Golden Nica for interactive arts at Ars Electronica, and in 2003, received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award for her film Teknolust. She has had retrospectives at the National Gallery of Canada, ICA and will have a retrospective organized by the Henry Gallery in Seattle that will tour the U.S., Canada and Europe beginning 2005. A monograph of her work is scheduled for release in 2005 by the University of California Press. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis. Her work is in the collections of Donald Hess, Arturo Schwarz, The Museum of Modern art, The William Lehmbruch Museum, the ZKM , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada and others.
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