Lynn Hershman Leeson

Since the 1960s, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941 in Cleveland, Ohio) has shaped artistic discourses on performance, interactivity, cyborgs, surveillance, artificial intelligence, and biogenetics, paving a path that many generations would follow. She has worked with some of the most significant scientists of our time, bringing art into a complex dialogue with science. As a professor and critic, Hershman Leeson has written extensively on art, media, and politics.