Tag: Lynn Hershman Leeson

  • Lynn Hershman Leeson – Twisted; Ed Atkins – Get Life/Love’s Work

    The human body provides a jumping-off point for both artists, but while Hershman Leeson’s exploration of the relationship between technology and self draw strongly on a feminist perspective, Atkins’ consideration of identity is rather troubling

  • Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018

    From Nam June Paik’s 1960s experiments to alter images on a TV screen to Ian Cheng’s use of chatbots and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki’s comments on celebrity-making through software that tracks Twitter feeds for reality TV shows, this exhibition…

  • Knock, Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

    From slapstick to sarcasm, parody to political activism, this group show at the South London Gallery, curated by Ryan Gander and gallery director Margot Heller, interrogates contemporary artists’ diverse manipulations of humour as a compelling facet of human connection

  • Future Shock

    An exhibition of works by a group of international artists, Future Shock looks at the profound impact of technological and social change on our present and our future

  • Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘I’ve always been interested in the exchange between reality and virtual reality’

    The US artist Lynn Hershman Leeson, known for her performance art and film-making, talks about her latest show, Civic Radar, making films with Tilda Swinton, and her fears about bio-engineering

  • Lynn Hershman Leeson: Civic Radar

    A dedicated feminist who came of age in the tumult of the 1960s, Lynn Hershman Leeson was born in 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio, and is now based in New York and San Francisco. She is an influential new media and…