The basis of the Life Squared project [link] is an archive of the work of Lynn Hershman held at Stanford University.
Life Squared is a project to re-animate elements of this archive in the online world Second Life.
This is a preliminary listing of the Lynn Hershman papers at Stanford University. It is not a completed finding aid, as the collection is still being "processed." So, it is not yet opened to the public for use, though we hope that will happen soon. However, this listing should serve the project well as food for thought, data for ruminations about navigating and animating the archive.
Categories of materials listed under relevant work or project, presented chronologically:
Christo’s Running Fence, 1972-76
Lynn Hershman, assoc. project director
a. Research & Development - 7 items
b. Maps – 7 items
c. Contracts & Agreements – 12 items
d. Photographs – 10 items
e. Postcards – 1 item
f. Correspondence – 31 items
g. Media – 21 items
h. Stationery – 3 items
i. Misc. – 14 items
. Dante Hotel, 1973-74
a. Catalogue – 7 items
b. Photography – 9 items
c. Artifacts – 1 item
d. Media – 8 items
e. Writings – 7 items
Forming a Sculpture – Drama in Manhattan, 1974
a. Catalogues – 4 items
b. Press – 2 items
c. Hotel Postcards – 3 items
d. Photography – 12 items
e. Correspondence – 7 items
f. Misc. – 5 items
The Floating Museum: San Francisco, Italy, France, 1974-78
Writings/Philosophy – 10 items
a. Finances – 16 items
b. Funding/Grants – 18 items
c. Media – 31 items
d. Misc. Media – 3 items
e. Press Releases – 2 items
f. Publicity – 6 items
g. The Floating Museum Brochure – 2 items
h. Correspondence – 30 items
i. Stationery – 4 items
j. Membership Application – 2 items
k. Misc. Writings – 10 items
l. Misc. Photography – 13 items
m. Free Space – 1 item
n. Restructuring the Public Image of Jerry Rubin – 2 items
o. Global Space Invasion – 13 items
p. Motion (Global Passport) – 25 items
q. (H)errata – 21 items
r. Angel Island – 8 items
s. Global Passport – 4 items
t. Leila and the Snakes – 7 items
u. Crime in the Streets – 2 items
v. Telemetry – 3 items
w. Exposures (Global Passport) – 2 items
x. Bologna International Art Fair – 9 items
y. Garam Gudang Group – 2 items
z. Artomat – 4 items
aa. Space/Time/Sound-1970s: A Decade in the Bay Area – 10 items
bb. Beeldend Theater – 15 items
cc. Revolving Sites (Global Passport) – 15 items
dd. Problematic Photography (Global Passport) – 1 item
ee. San Quentin – 41 items
ff.
Participating Artists – 145 items
25 Windows: A Project for Bonwit Teller, 1974-76
a. Conceptual Research & Development – 12 items
b. Design Development – 16 items
c. Window Design Drafts – 10 items
d. Window Survey – 5 items
e. Itinerary – 6 items
f. Expenses – 2 items
g. Correspondence – 21 items
h. Project Announcements – 5 items
i. Project Film & Music – 2 items
j. Media – 19 items
k. Negatives – 5 items
l. Contact Prints – 1 item
m. Photographs – 1 item
n. Misc. – 2 items
Videotapes documenting The Windows installations. 8 boxes.
a. 2 boxes, interactive projects box 1 of 2, three 1" master tapes of Lorna, seven 3/4" tapes, 1 hi 8 tapes, 1 beta tape. box 2 of 2 seven 3/4" tapes, 1 beta tape
b. 1 box interviews, 13 beta, 2 3/4" includes Kroker, RU. Sirus, Marget
Morse, Tmothy Leary, Jaron Lanier, Marlon Riggs
c. 1 box Europe reviews on TV, six 3/4 tapes including reviews on
television, Charles Kurault, labeled Interviews and Lectures.
d. 1 box Conspiray of Silence original Seven 3/4"
e. 1 box, Roxie, Cut Piece press
f. 1 box five 3/4” performance tapes
g. 1 box Chain Reaction 1 16mm film, 1" tapes
h. 1 box production notes, Endangered Species
i. 1 box misc. tapes
1 box Reforming Familiar Environments: Coppola House, San Francisco, 1975
a. Instruction Manuals – 3 items
b. Media – 2 items
c. Photographs – 16 items
d. Misc. – 4 items
1 BOX Lady Luck, 1975
a. Brochures - 6 items
b. Correspondence – 11 items
c. Conceptual Research & Development – 7 items
d. Photographs – 14 items
e. Film – 1 item
Fire Works, 1979-83 (in box with Chain Reaction/Difference Engine)
a. Writings – 2 items
b. Visual Research – 7 items
c.
Site Specific Film Installations – 36 items
a.1 box Desire Inc , two 1" tapes, three 3/4" tapes
b.1 box music scores, twelve 3/4" tapes, 1 vhs
c.1 box audio sound tracks, 7 3/4" tapes, 38 audio tepes, including
Rinde Eckert, Sara Roberts, Elbows Akimbo 1977-90
Lorna, 1979-83 (in box with Dante Hotel)
a. Conceptual Research – 5 items
b. Storyboard – 5 items
c. Script – 11 items
d. Technical Information – 11 items
e. Disk Branching System – 6 items
f. Production Notes – 12 items
g. Photography – 10 items
h. DVD – 1 item
i. Laser Disc – 1 item
j. Correspondence – Engagement – 5 items
k. Correspondence – Personal – 3 items
l. Correspondence – Production – 14 items
m. Catalogue – 10 items
n. Exhibition & Screening Brochures – 11 items
o. Airline Ticket Giveaway – 1 item
p. Media – 30 items
q. Images – 6 items
r. Statement of Plans for Interaction
Myth America Corporation, 1979-80
60 items
Non Credited Americans, 1981 (in box with Lady Luck)
a. Design Development – 1 item
b. Correspondence – 6 items
c. Exhibition – 8 items
d. Photography – 6 items
e. Expenses – 5 items
f. Media – 4 items
Deep Contact, 1984-89 (in box with chain reaction)
a. Technical/Conceptual Research – 18 items
b. Technical/Conceptual Writings – 20 items
c. Branching System – 8 items
d. DVD Migration – 7 items
e. Script – 5 items
f. Photographs – 8 items
g. Disks – 1 item
h. Music – 1 item
i. Grants – 1 item
j. Budget – 3 items
k. Advance Orders – 6 items
l. Receipts – 8 items
m. Correspondence – 21 items
n. Exhibitions – 29 items
o. Publications – 28 items
p. Sara Roberts Thesis – 2 items
A Room of One’s Own, 1990-93 (in box with Chimera, America’s Fines)
a. Installation Instruction – 1 item
b. Video Installation Manual – 2 items
c. Misc. – 1 item
SEEING IS BELIEVING including tapes with Paule West, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Rachel Rosenthal. WINNER VIGO SPAIN Video Festival, 20 tapes,
LONGSHOT, 62 minutes Fact and Fiction cross dress in this feature faux documentary that searches for the origins of its own footage. Lian, a singing street girl is manipulalted by Dennis, a video editor as both search for truth. GRAND PRIZE WINNER, Montbeliard, CMCV
a. 2 boxes, Seeing is Believing, (box 1) thirteen 3/4" tapes, one 1" tape
seventeen 3/4" tapes, one 1" tape
b two boxes of Longshot
box 1, one " tape, thirteen 3/4" tapes box 2, three 1”
tapes, 16mm film, four 3/4" tapes
d. 1 box Longshot, 11 3/4" tapes, plus one 3/4" tape of zhu zha and the muse master and one 3/4" tape documenting dept contact for news at S.F. Museum of Modern Art
e. 1 box fourteen 3/4 tapes, Clicking On CD ROM disks.
Chimaera Monographie: Lynn Hershman, 1992 (in Room of One’s Own Box)
a. Chimaera Monographie – 1 item
b. Preliminary Textual Drafts – 31 items
c. “Preliminary Notes” – 4 items
d. Bibliography & Exhibition History – 1 item
e. Moira Roth Interview & Essay – 2 items
f. Correspondence – 5 items
g. Chimaera Disks – 6 items
h. Preliminary Proof – 1 item
i. Chimaera Images with Text – 40 items
VIRTUAL LOVE Beta S.P., 3/4" 1/2'
A love story for the 90's, this is a story about Virtual Reality, Reality and Identity in an Elecronic world. Commissioned by ZDF German Television, this features Rinde Ekert, and 10 Media and Virtual Relaity Experts. Including the Krokers, Jaron Lanier, RU Sirius.
5 boxes, as well as production notes
a. box 1, eleven beta tapes, six 3/4 tapes
b. box 2 eight beta tapes, 1 audio tapes 3 3/4 tapes
c. box 3 three reel audiotracks by earwax, 28 beta tapes
e. box 4 nineteen beta tapes
f. box 5 Thirteen 3/4" tapes
g. box 6, Production notes.
Cut Piece Beta SP, Premiered on ARTE, March 1993 A video recreation of Yoko Ono's performance of 1964 includes interviews with Whitney Chadwick and Moira Roth 20 tapes
a. 3 boxes Cut Piece, box 1, 7 3/4" tapes, box 2 14 beta, three 3/4 six 3/4" tapes, 5 super 8 films 4 vhs tapes, 2 16mm
America’s Finest, 1994-95 (in box with room of One’sOwn, chimera)
a. Conceptual & Technical Research – 12 items
b. Contracts – 2 items
c. Grants – 1 item
d. Targa+ Information – 6 items
e. Software – 6 items
f. Software & Installation – 7 items
g. Illustrated Storyboard – 2 items
h. Photographs – 4 items
i. Exhibitions – 62 items
j. Correspondence – 1 item
Found Footage. Beta NTSC, 1/2" A series of unedited scenes in which the main characters are caught in an unending cycle of domestic violence. 1994-1996.
a.1 box Found Footage, four 3/4 tapes, 16 Beta tapes, one16MM film
b. 1 box 15 3/4” tapes, 4 betas
c. 1 box 16 beta tapes, , includes 1 Twistin the cord 3/4”, assorted audio and hi 8 tapes.
Paranoid Mirror, 1995-96 (in box with/ Reforming Familiar Environments)
a. Project Proposal – 8 items
b. Materials List – 2 items
c. Software Schematics – 3 items
d. Technical Notes – 1 item
e. Operating Instructions – 2 items
f. Contact Information – 1 item
g. Photographs – 9 items
h. Receipts – 10 items
i. Correspondence – 1 item
j. Seattle Art Museum – 31 items
k. Digital Meditations – 3 items
l. Pilkington-Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc. – 1 item
m. Misc. – 1 item
Desire, Inc. 1995 Three boxes of videotapes, including Twists in the Cord, Annie Gerber tapes, B Files, Seduction of a Cyborg. Shooting Script
a1 box Annie Gerber 4 3/4" tapes, 1 beta tape, 2 hi 8 tapes from Paranoid Mirror
b. four 3/4" , 3 hi 8 1 beta
c. box Twists in the Cord, 9 beta tapes
. 1 box B Files approx 40 beta sp tapes
d. 1 box Double Cross Click Click 24 BETA
d. 1 box, four beta sp Seduction of a Cyborg
e. 2 boxes Shooting Script Thirteen 3/4" tapes, box 2 ten 3/4" tapes, plus 1 16mm
Difference Engine #3, 1995-98 (In box with Chain Reaction, Fire Works)
a. Project Proposals – 14 items
b. Technical Development – 44 items
c. Schematics – 21 items
d. Museum Blueprints – 6 items
e. Catalogues – 8 items
f. Project Participants – 3 items
g. Correspondence – 32 items
h. Equipment – 7 items
i. Finances – 15 items
j. Timeline – 9 items
k. Schedule – 32 items
l. Media – 3 items
m. Photographs – 1 item
Conceiving Ada, 1996-1997. Beta SP/35mm, approximately 25 boxes.
The life of Ada Byron, Countess of Lovelace is told through the eyes of a contemporary woman, stars Tilda Swinton, Karen Black, Timothy Leary. Uses Virtual Sets. Director of Photography, Hiro Narita, music by The Residents. Original footage and film, photographs, production notes, animations, rough cuts, misc. ephemera
Selected for:
1998 Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival, The Berlin International Film Festival, Montreal Festival of New Cinema, Riocinne and 35 other festivals worldwide. It received the award of "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" from the Festival of Electronic Cinema in Japan as well as the Iomega Award for Technical Innovation and the National Education Media Festival award for Outstanding Technical Innovation. Pioneering digital processes were used to create virtual sets for this film. Conceiving Ada was released by Fox Lorber in February, 1999 and on DVD in February 2000.
a. 1 box 24 beta sp tapes, Tilda VO, assorted audio
b. 1 box production notes, optical tracks, etc.
c. 1 box 35mm Sony Masters, Optical tracks (labeled box4)
d. 1 box 35mm selects cut pix and trims (labeled box 3)
e. 1 box 40 audio tracks and mixes
f. 1 box of 9 approx original negs, (labeled box 2)
g. 1 box original neg selects, outtakes, rolls 8-19
h. 1 box production notes
i. approximately 42 digi beta masters and film transfers including Lear
j. 35mm selects, trims outs, olls 1-10
k. custom work prints in 3 35mm cans
l. 7negatives
m. 3/4 and beta tapes and avid dubs, 3 trk mag for reuse(labeled 5)
n. approx 4 rolls 35mm film (labeled 4)
o. original negative select rolls 21-24, sony rolls titled credit crawls, optical dupe neg, trims
p. 1 roll dolby s stuff final mix master 1 box dats rolls 1-9
q. approx 4 35mm film rolls (laveled 3)
r. 1 monaco bag 1 mag tracks 4 35mm film rolls
s. 1 box various scripts
t. original negatives marked selects 1-7, outtakes and trims
u. film to tape transfers and sounds approx 30 beta sp tapes
v. production notes on virtual sets and effects
w. 1 box approximately 32 beta sp tapes, approx 15 computer disks on virtual sets
x. 1 box 8 beta tapes, assorted audio cassettes.
y. Conceiving Ada large press box
Teknolust, 2002. 12 boxes.
Cinematographer: Hiro Narita (Academy Award Nominee)
Editor: Lisa Fruchtman (Academy Award Winner, Apocalypse Now, Godfather Three) Starring: Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, Josh Kornbluth, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak, Karen Black
Innovative Technology:
This film will be one of the first shot with a 24p digital high definition camera as well as a revolutionary laser scanning camera and will feature an artificial intelligent web agent.
Production notes, props, copies of original footage, breakdowns, scripts, misc. ephemera.
a. 2 boxes Ruby Clothing
b. 2 boxes Technolust press
c. 1 box of 22 hi def tapes
d. 1 box Teknolust synopsis
e. 4 boxes assorted tapes
f. 1 box Misc. tapes approx 20 vhs copies of edited works
g. 1 box Teknolust art dept props plus files
Catalogues, press, announcements of exhibitions, etc.
a1 box early press 1972
b.1 box 1995, 1996, 1998,
c. 2 b0xes 2000
d. 2 boxes 2001 files
e. 3 boxes 2002
f. 2 boxes 2003
g. 1 box of notes from Poland, etc, 1996
h. 1 box (11) 1993 and 1994 press
i. 1 box 235 media, mediamatic, etc.
j. 1 box, dantas, assorted personal files/letters, etc
TOTAL approximately 90 boxes
