'The most influential woman working in new media'
Siemens Medienkunstpreis

We are engaging with Lynn's development of current and new work. Have a look at the aims of the Presence Project - [link]

Part of this engagement is a collaborative project - we are developing an environment for encountering an archive of Lynn's work in the online world Second Life. It is called

Life to the second power (L2) [link]

Recently cited as being one of the most influential media artists of our times, Lynn's output ranges from early conceptual works and performance, to photo collages and videotapes, from tv and film to interactive installations.

She received The Alfred P. Sloan award given to a writer/ director of a film that breaks traditional stereotypes and has recently received the Siemens Media Arts Award (shared with Peter Greenaway), the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

She received the prestigious Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica, known as the Oscar of Cyberspace.

She was named by the World Technology Network as one of the top five technological innovators in the arts.

In Germany, ZDF commissioned eight feature length films, the ZKM Mediammuseum, owns five digital installations, The Wilhelm Lehmbruch Museum, and the DG Bank in Frankfurt own installations and photographs. Japan gave her the “Outstanding Drama” prize.

Her art work is collected internationally and is owned by The Museum of Modern Art (N.Y.), The National Gallery of Canada, The Walker Art Center , The University Art Museum, The Seattle Art Museum, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Hess Collection (Bern/Napa) as well as other private collections.

The Henry Art Gallery of Seattle has mounted a major international museum retrospective of her work which will tour nationally and internationally in 2006-2008, and recently received major grant from The Getty Foundation and The Warhol Foundation to support the exhibition. She is on the International Advisory Board for Leonardo, and a Film Commisioner for the city of San Francisco. See the exhibition website [link].

The University of California Press has released a monograph and DVD Rom Secret Agents/Private I’s, The Art and Film of Lynn Hershman Leeson [link].

She was awarded the Cornell University A.D. White Professor at Large, the highest honor of the university. Past recipients include Antonioni, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, among others. She is a Pofessor at the University of California's Technocultural Studies Program.

Here are some more notes about Lynn from Gabriella Giannachi [link]

See also a feature article about her in The New York Times [link]

Lynn's webpage is here - [link]