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Hershman, Lynn «Agent Ruby»
Hershman, Lynn «DiNA»
Relevant passages:
Dieter Daniels «Television-Art or anti-art?
Conflict and cooperation between the avant-garde and the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s» Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life» Söke Dinkla «Virtual Narrations
From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality» | 2 Inke Arns «Interaction, Participation, Networking: Art and Telecommunication» Verena Kuni «Mythical Bodies II. Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the imagination space of technological (re)production (II): The promises of monsters and posthuman anthropomorphisms» Sigrid Schade «The Media/Games of the Doll - Contemporary Artists' Interest in Surrealism» Margaret Morse «Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self»
Works by Lynn Hershman:
A Room of One's Own: (Echo Narcissus) Commercials for NY Hotel Rooms CybeRoberta Deep Contact: The First Interactive Sexual Fantasy Videodisc Lorna Phantom Limb Photographs Roberta Breitmore Teknolust
Lynn Hershman
b 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio (USA); She received a Masters of Art from San Francisco State University, with an emphasis on criticism. Since 1993 she is appointed Senior Professor for Electronic and Digital Arts at theUniversity of California. For the past 35 years, she has worked in a variety of media including photograhy, video and electronic sculpture and films, like «Conceiving Ada» (1993–97). Her artistic work also includes performances like the famous «Robert Breitmore» (1971–78) and interactive installations like «Lorna» (1979–83), «America´s Finest» (1994–95) und «Dolly Clones» (1995–98). In many works she deals with the aspect of «privacy in the era of surveillance». Lives and works in San Francisco, CA (USA).
