Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has received international acclaim for her art and films. She is recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. She is considered one of the most influential media artists and has made pioneering contributions in photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art.
Her activist films on injustice within the art world and society at large have been...
Best known work
Teknolust
2002
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolution
2010
Conceiving Ada
1999
POV
1988
Strange Culture
2007
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
2019
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story
1992
Virtual Love
1993
Seduction of a Cyborg
1994
Desire Inc.
1990Filmography
2024
Cyborgian Rhapsody—ImmortalityDirector
2023
ImmortalityDirector
2022
Logic Paralyzes the HeartDirector
2021
Tell Them We Were Hereas Self
2019
2019
Shadow StalkerEditor, Writer, Director, Producer
2019
The Electronic DiariesDirector
2017
VertiGhostEditor, Director, Writer, Producer
2017
Tania LibreDirector
2010
!W.A.R.: !Women Art Revolutionas Herself, Director, Writer, Editor
2007
Strange CultureWriter, Editor, Director
2007
Life Squaredas Narrator, Director
2002
TeknolustDirector, Producer, Screenplay
1999
Conceiving Adaas CD Rom (Voice), Producer, Director, Writer, Production Design
1998
CyberBabyas Herself, Director
1994
Seduction of a CyborgDirector, Writer
1994
1993
Virtual LoveDirector, Writer
1992
Seeing Is BelievingWriter, Director, Editor, Producer
1992
Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love StoryDirector, Writer
1990
Desire Inc.Director, Editor
1989
LongshotEditor, Director
1988
1987
BingeDirector
1986
Confessions of a ChameleonDirector