Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 377574102X ISBN 13: 9783775741026

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2016

Synopsis

Lynn Hershman Leeson is one of the first and most influential media artists. During the past five decades she has done pioneering work in the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation, and interactive and net-based media art. Hershman Leeson’s major themes are the construction of identity, surveillance and control, and life in the age of genetic engineering. Her most well-known series is Roberta Breitmore (1973­-78)―, a fictional character embodied by her and three other women, in part simultaneously. A kind of clone of the artist, her life is staged in real time and space. In her most recent works, Hershman Leeson includes web applications and mass communication media such as smartphones, as well as the latest scientific developments in the field of genetics and regenerative medicine, including 3D bioprinters that create human body parts.Exhibition: Deichtorhallen 14.6.2015–17.1.2016

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Review:

Hershman Leeson's prescient art, as Civic Radar shows us, continually mines the overlaps of the real and the virtual, exposing the mediating and monitoring roles of culture, technology, and the state.--Johanna Fateman "Bookforum "

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 377574102X
• ISBN 13: 9783775741026
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: ZKM | Zentrum Für Kunst Und Medientechnologie Karl