Over the last four decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. Hershman Leeson presents her feature film Teknolust (2002, 85 min.) and a short film VertiGhost (2017, 13 min.). Following the screenings, will be a conversation with the artist and David Levine, Professor of the Practice in the Theater, Dance, Media concentration.

One of the most influential media artists, Hershman Leeson is widely 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. Over the last forty years she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art. In 2014m ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, mounted the first comprehensive retrospective of her work titled Civic Radar curated by Peter Weibel and Andreas Beitin. A substantial publication, which Holland Cotter listed as one of the “10 indispensible art books of 2016”.

This program is in collaboration with the The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today and the Theater, Dance, Media concentration at Harvard.

For more information, please visit: https://carpenter.center/events/lynn-hershman-leeson