Lynn Hershman Leeson: A History of Her Own Published by Mousse Publishing.
Text by Lisa Long, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Moira Roth, Diane Tani, Jack Chipman, Pamela M. Lee, Judith Dunham, James Minton, Alfred Frankenstein, Karen Archey, Martin Herbert, Prudence Juris, Herbert Goode, Amelia Jones, Peggy Phelan, Robert Atkins, Kyle Stephan, Gabriella Giannachi, Jordan Stein, Hilaire Dufresne, David E. James, Margot Norton, Isobel Harbison, Josefin Granetoft, Yvonne SPielmann, Katherine C. M. Adams, Margaret Morse, Line Ajan, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Sabine Himmelsbach, Rudolf Frieling, Laura Poitras, Juliana Huxtable, Hilton Als. The first reader dedicated to the work of seminal media artist Lynn Hershman Leeson insightfully examines her oeuvre at the nexus of science, modern culture and human existence Since the 1960s, Ohio-born, San Francisco–based artist Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941) has shaped artistic discourses on performance, interactivity, cyborgs, feminism, surveillance, artificial intelligence and biogenetics, paving a path for the generations that followed. A History of Her Own is the first ever collection of essays on the work of this renowned artist and media pioneer, printed in compact paperback form to follow her first solo exhibition in Düsseldorf at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, curated by Lisa Long. Across her career, Hershman Leeson has worked with some of the most significant scientists of our time, examined the expectations surrounding women's roles in contemporary society and relationships, and provided platforms and public spaces for artists around her, colliding art, science and gender critique into an impressive and original array of film, performance, technology and multidisciplinary work.
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