Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson has worked extensively in photography, video, film, performance, installation, and interactive and net-based media. She is a recipient of the Independent Spirit Award and the prestigious Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica, and was recently nominated by the World Technology Network as one of the top five technological innovators in the world in the arts. She was recently a Sundance Fellow. Her latest film, Teknolust, starring Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Davies, premiered in the American Showcase of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and is being distributed by Skouras Films worldwisde and Thinkfilm in North America and received The Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize, awarded for the direction of a film that explores science and technology themes with originality and insight, challenging existing stereotypes. In 1994, Hershman Leeson received a tribute and retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and she was awarded the ZKM/Siemens Media Arts Award. In 1998, she was a Sundance Screenwriter Fellow and was honored with the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. Lynn Hershman-Leeson‘s first feature film, Conceiving Ada, starring Tilda Swinton, was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, The Toronto International Film Festival, The Berlin International Film Festival and 35 other festivals worldwide. It received the award of "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" from the Festival of Electronic Cinema. Conceiving Ada and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. Lynn Hershman Leeson's artwork is held in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The National Gallery of Canada, DG Bank (Frankfurt), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), The William Lehmbruch Museum (Duisburg), the ZKM Mediammuseum (Karlsruhe), The University Art Museum (Berkeley), and the Hess Collection Her 53 videotapes and 9 interactive installations have garnered many international awards, including First Prize Vigo, Spain and First Prize Crystal Trophy, Montbelliard, France. The Henry Art Gallery of Seattle will curate a major international museum retrospective of her work to tour in 2006-2008. The author of Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture published in 1996 by Bay Press, she has published extensively on digital culture and art. The University of California Press will publish a monograph of her work in 2005.