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Exhibitions throughout Bay Area Celebrate Lynn Hershman Leeson
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is pleased to announce Life&#; (Life to the power of n)&#;or, life to the power of infinity&#;a series of exhibitions highlighting the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson that will taking place throughout the Bay Area in Internationally recognized as one of the most influential among San Francisco&#;based media artists, Hershman Leeson has shaped the history of contemporary art in the Bay Area since the early s.
This collaborative survey of the artist&#;s past and current projects is a joint effort among local institutions and art collections; it will feature six presentations over the course of the year (see calendar below), individually organized by each participating venue but jointly promoted under the title of Life&#;.
Life&#;(Life to the power of n)was initiated by SFMOMA and coordinated by Rudolf Frieling, the museum&#;s curator of media arts.
The project is jointly organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, SFMOMA, and 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge at the San Jose Museum of Art.
For more than three decades Hershman Leeson has worked in a variety of media, including performance, photography, video, installation, artificial intelligence and the internet, and feature film.
Re-examining the artist&#;s pioneering contributions to contemporary art, Life&#; revisits early site-specific installations and groundbreaking experiments in alternative art spaces.
Lynn hershman-leeson the dante hotel miskolc reviews The videodisk installation is a collaboration with Sarah Roberts. Using social contexts and media platforms to rigorously examine issues related to consumerism, privacy, surveillance and the process by which personal power emerges. It also features new commissions. November 8, —February 8,It also features new commissions. Common denominators among the individualpresentations are the artist&#;s reconfiguration of historic and archival material, as well as her incorporation of user participation through new online platforms such as Second Life. Life&#; proposes that there is not just one &#;real life&#; and one &#;virtual life,&#; but potentially endless manifestations of life and art that combine and mutate into hybrid forms of exhibition display, performance, online communities, interactive interfaces, user-generated content, and public screenings.
As they become available, exhibition materials from each project in Life&#; are digitally relocated to a site in Second Life (URL to be announced), which will eventually become the content and record for a &#;meta-archive,&#; facilitating deeper analysis, active investigation, and social exploration of the work.
Updates on the project and Second Life access information will be posted at More information about Hershman Leeson can be found at the artist&#;s website:
In conjunction with Life&#;, a new monograph on the work of Hershman Leeson will be co-published by Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, and bitforms gallery, New York, in partnership with The Hess Collection (release date and details to be announced).
Lynn hershman-leeson the dante hotel miskolc prague Hershman Leeson pushes the limits of artificial intelligence, the limits of prosthesis, in order to understand not only the redefinition of the human, but of the organic itself. Another window of the dollhouse features a minute loop of the couple recounting the events. Wallpaper of hybrid crops and animals and syringes define one room. As the market goes up, she shops and dances.CALENDAR OF EVENTS (in chronological order)
Lynn Hershman Leeson: No Body Special
de Young Museum
February 2&#;June 1,
This exhibition uses a pantsuit by the house of Jean Patou (ca. ), drawn from the de Young&#;s extensive costume collection, to investigate the nexus of fashion, art, and display.
Through reproductions of the museum&#;s pantsuit, worn by a variety of models (including one of the art world&#;s notorious Guerrilla Girls), the artist intervenes in the social construction of clothing design, marketing, and consumption.
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Global Mind Radar/Reader (An Emotional Barometer)
A project included in the biennial exhibition 01SJ A Global Festival of Art of the Edge
May 10&#;September 7,
Like a dynamic teleprompter for what is on the global mind, Hershman Leeson&#;s new work Global Mind Radar/Reader (An Emotional Barometer), , &#;reads&#; current blog postings about emotionally charged topics, such as climate change, consumerism, and politics.
As the blogs scroll across a series of screens, they animate a virtual character with glee, indifference, or sadness, serving as an emotional barometer of what people are thinking.
Lynn hershman-leeson the dante hotel miskolc Influenced by Duchamp, Cage, and others, the piece makes visceral the ways men might control women and turn them into objects—but the outcomes do not not always uphold that power dynamic. In the late 70s Hershman Leeson started to work with video, which she used to further her exploration of vision, spectacle and spectatorship. The writings are printed in publications ranging from local San Francisco trade magazines to prestigious art journals such as Studio International. Still under the oxygen tent and recovering from heart failure, Hershman Leeson creates a piece titled "Conversation.The work is curated by Steve Dietz for the second international biennial 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a festival of new media art hosted at various cultural venues throughout the city of
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CyberActive: The Work of Lynn Hershman Leeson
The Hess Collection
May 16&#;November 28,
Beginning with Hershman Leeson&#;s s performance piece Roberta Breitmore, this presentation offers a retrospective survey of interactivity and identity constructs in the artist&#;s work.
The exhibition includes photography, video, ephemera, and major examples of her participation-based multimedia &#;sculptures.&#;
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Lynn Hershman Leeson&#;Virtually Everything, Virtually: An Almost Complete Retrospective of the Single-Channel Works &#;
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
June 1, / noon&#;8 p.m.
The Pacific Film Archive presents an immersive screening&#;almost seven hours of video work by Hershman Leesson&#;that ranges from her Bonwit Teller windows of to the Recovered Diaries of The program includes several real-time Q&A sessions with the artist, via her virtual representation in Second Life, throughout the day.
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The Floating MuseumArchive
New Langton Arts
September 4&#;October 25,
This exhibition presents a selection of documents and ephemera from Lynn Hershman Leeson&#;s The Floating Museum, a project produced by the artist between and as a model for creating public, site-specific work in untraditional locations.
For this work, Hershman Leeson curated projects from Bay Area, national, and international artists that appeared in places as diverse as San Quentin State Prison and
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Life² (Life squared)
A project included in the exhibition The Art of Participation: to Now
November 8, &#;February 8,
In this presentation Hershman Leeson reconfigures her historic work The Dante Hotel (&#;74), recognized as one of the first site-specific public art installations in
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Life² is supported by the Stanford Humanities Lab and the Daniel Langlois Foundation.
ORGANIZATION
Life&#; (Life to the power of n) is a yearlong exhibition series on Lynn Hershman Leeson&#;s work initiated by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and jointly organized by the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the de Young Museum, The Hess Collection, New Langton Arts, SFMOMA, and 01SJ A Global Festival of Art on the Edge at the San Jose Museum of Art.