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Written by Michela Pilo   
Jun 12, 2006 at 01:29 PM

There will be a preivew of the work-in-progress of Lynn Hershman's "Strange Culture," the story of Steve Kurtz, Professor of Art at the State University of Buffalo and a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Critical Art Ensemble.

Lynn's book, "The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I," was recently reviewed in "Per Contra" magazine.

The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I serve both as an absorbing introduction to the career of Lynn Hershman Leeson, and, also, through her work, to: aspects of the relationship of art and technology; site-specific installations; interactive art; and performance art. In the forward to this fascinating and informative collection of essays, Robin Held credits Hershman with being a "pioneer in 'new media' art" including producing "one of the first interactive artworks on videodisc, ...the first artwork to use a touch-screen interface; one of the earliest robotic art installations; and the Lynn Hershman Leeson (LHL) Process for Vitual Sets." Lynn Hershman is also known for her Roberta Breitmore project l974-1978, in which, as Held wrote, Hershman "explored spectacle, surveillance and spectatorship and their roles in constructing a sexed identity." This collection of essays includes two chapters by the artist, both of which are must-reads for those interested in the history of art during the last decades of the Twentieth Century and the start of the Twenty-First; the book will be especially interesting to someone interested in a feminist perspective of that time period.

See http://www.percontra.net/reviewsummer.html

Last Updated ( Jul 05, 2006 at 11:46 PM )
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