Lynn Hershman Leeson: Twisted

For over 50 years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has created an innovative and prescient body of work that mines intersections between technology and the self. This title brings together a selection of the artist’s most important work in drawing, sculpture, video, photography, and interactive and net-based art, focusing on themes of transmutation, identity construction and the evolution of the cyborg.Known for her pioneering contributions to media art, Hershman Leeson has consistently worked in tandem with the latest technological developments from Artificial Intelligence to DNA programming, often anticipating many of the issues affecting society today. This title includes the Breathing Machine sculptures; early drawings from the 1960s, many of which have never been shown; works from the Roberta Breitmore series (1970–79), perhaps her best-known project, in which she transformed her own identity into a fictional persona; selections from her Water Women series (1976–2010); and many more.
ISBN 9780915557264. New Museum. pb. 292 pages. 119 colour ills. 18.4 x 24.8 cm. .
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