Lynn Hershman Leeson
Encyclopedia
Lynn Hershman Leeson is an award-winning American
artist
and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis
, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University
. She is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute
, and has received wide recognition for a body of work combining art with social commentary, particularly regarding the relationship between humans and technology.
LORNA was an early project of Leeson. The first interactive laser artdisk, LORNA tells the story of an agorophobic woman. Viewers have the option of directing her life into several possible plots and endings. LORNA never left her one room apartment. According to Leeson, the objects in her room were very much like those in The Dante Hotel. Except that there was a television set. As LORNA watched the news and ads, she became fearful, afraid to leave her tiny room. Viewers were invited to liberate LORNA from her web of fears by accessing buttons on their remote control unit that corresponded to numbers placed on the items in her room. Instead of being passive, the action was literally in their own hands. Every object in LORNA'S room contains a number and becomes a chapter in her life that opens into branching sequences.
The viewer/participant accesses information about LORNA'S past, future and personal conflicts via these objects. Many images on the screen are of the remote control device LORNA uses to change television channels. Because viewer/participants also use a nearly identical unit to direct the disc action, a metaphoric link or point of identification is established and surrogate decisions are made for LORNA. The telephone was LORNA'S link to the outside world. imageViewer/participants chose to voyeuristically overhear conversations of different contexts as they trespassed the cyberspace of her hard pressed life. There were three endings: Lorna shoots her television set, commits suicide, or moves to Los Angeles.
The plot has multiple variations that can be seen backwards, forwards, at increased or decreased speeds, and from several points of view. There is no hierarchy in the ordering of decisions. And the icons were made often of cut off and dislocated body parts such as a mouth, or an eye...
In 2007 a retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery
in Manchester
, Autonomous Agents, featured a comprehensive range of the artist's work - from the Roberta Breitmore series (1974–78) to videos from the 1980s and interactive installations that use the Internet and artificial intelligence software. Her influential early ventures into performance and photography are also featured in the current touring exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I, was published by The University of California Press
in 2005 on the occasion of another retrospective at the Henry Gallery in Seattle.
Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art
, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
, the National Gallery of Canada
, the Walker Art Center
and the University Art Museum, Berkeley
, in addition to the private collections of Donald Hess and Arturo Schwarz
, among many others. Commissions include projects for the Tate Modern
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
, de Young Museum, Daniel Langlois
and Stanford University
, and Charles Schwab
.
Her three feature films - Strange Culture
, Teknolust
, Conceiving Ada
- have been part of the Sundance Film Festival
, the Toronto International Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival
, among others, and have won numerous awards. She is presently in the editing phase of a feature-length documentary entitled !Women Art Revolution! A (Formerly) Secret History, which is anticipated for release in 2011.
, she is also the recipient of a Siemens
International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica
, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, and the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art from the Association for Computer Graphic's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH
). In 2004, Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson's working archive.
Lynn Hershman Leeson was the recipient of a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship.
In 2010 Hershman Leeson received the [ddaa] d.velop digital art award.
Hershman Leeson is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute
, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis
and an A D White Professor at Large at Cornell University
.
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH
), New Orleans, LA
Guggenheim Fellow, US & Canada Competition. Creative Arts, Film, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
, New York, NY
Individual Artist Commissions Award, San Francisco Arts Commission
, San Francisco, CA
Film/Video Grantee, for !Women Art Revolution! A (Formerly) Secret History, Creative Capital, New York, NY
Marlon Riggs
Award, for courage and innovation in cinema, The San Francisco Film Critics Circle
, San Francisco, CA
Innovation that Matters Award, ISEA/ZeroOne, San Jose, CA
Funding, for the production of Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive, The Daniel Langlois Foundation
, Montreal, Canada
National Endowment for the Arts
Grant in Media Arts
Positive Innovations Award, International Digital Media and Arts Association, Muncie, IN
Acquisition of Lynn Hershman Leeson archives 1966-2002 by Stanford University
Libraries
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology, for Teknolust
, Hamptons International Film Festival
, East Hampton, NY
Cyber Identities, Tribute and Retrospective, Feminale Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Funding, for the production of Agent Ruby, The Daniel Langlois Foundation
, Montreal, Canada
Golden Nica Award (Grand Prize) in Interactive Art, for The Difference Engine #3, Prix Ars Electronica
, Linz, Austria
Anne Gerber Award, for Paranoid Mirror, Seattle Art Museum
, Seattle, WA
ZKM/Siemens
Media Art Prize, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Cyberstar Award, for The Venus Home Page, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) /GMD, Cologne, Germany
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for America's Finest, Prix Ars Electronica
, Linz, Austria
Reaching through the Screen: A Tribute to Lynn Hershman, Special Tribute, San Francisco International Film Festival
, San Francisco, CA
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for Room of One's Own, Prix Ars Electronica
, Linz, Austria
Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award, for Conspiracy of Silence, Art Institute of Chicago
, Chicago, IL
Jonas Mekas
Award, for Shadow's Song, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Arcata, CA
First Prize, for Seeing Is Believing, Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Trophée de Cristal (Grand Prize), for Longshot, Montbéliard Video and Television Festival, Montbéliard, France
Prix du Public, for Longshot, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
, Montréal, Canada
Film of the Year, for Longshot, London Film Festival
, British Film Institute
, London, England
Golden Gate Award
, for Confessions of a Chameleon, San Francisco International Film Festival
, San Francisco, CA
United States
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artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and filmmaker. She was Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
, and an A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. She is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
, and has received wide recognition for a body of work combining art with social commentary, particularly regarding the relationship between humans and technology.
Work
Leeson's work has as its themes: identity in a time of consumerism, privacy in an era of surveillance, interfacing of humans and machines, and the relationship between real and virtual worlds. Her work grew out of an installation art and performance tradition. She explored interactivity with her video work.LORNA was an early project of Leeson. The first interactive laser artdisk, LORNA tells the story of an agorophobic woman. Viewers have the option of directing her life into several possible plots and endings. LORNA never left her one room apartment. According to Leeson, the objects in her room were very much like those in The Dante Hotel. Except that there was a television set. As LORNA watched the news and ads, she became fearful, afraid to leave her tiny room. Viewers were invited to liberate LORNA from her web of fears by accessing buttons on their remote control unit that corresponded to numbers placed on the items in her room. Instead of being passive, the action was literally in their own hands. Every object in LORNA'S room contains a number and becomes a chapter in her life that opens into branching sequences.
The viewer/participant accesses information about LORNA'S past, future and personal conflicts via these objects. Many images on the screen are of the remote control device LORNA uses to change television channels. Because viewer/participants also use a nearly identical unit to direct the disc action, a metaphoric link or point of identification is established and surrogate decisions are made for LORNA. The telephone was LORNA'S link to the outside world. imageViewer/participants chose to voyeuristically overhear conversations of different contexts as they trespassed the cyberspace of her hard pressed life. There were three endings: Lorna shoots her television set, commits suicide, or moves to Los Angeles.
The plot has multiple variations that can be seen backwards, forwards, at increased or decreased speeds, and from several points of view. There is no hierarchy in the ordering of decisions. And the icons were made often of cut off and dislocated body parts such as a mouth, or an eye...
In 2007 a retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery
Whitworth Art Gallery
The Whitworth Art Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The museum is located south of the Manchester University campus, in Whitworth Park....
in Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
, Autonomous Agents, featured a comprehensive range of the artist's work - from the Roberta Breitmore series (1974–78) to videos from the 1980s and interactive installations that use the Internet and artificial intelligence software. Her influential early ventures into performance and photography are also featured in the current touring exhibition WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, organized by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson: Secret Agents, Private I, was published by The University of California Press
University of California Press
University of California Press, also known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish books and papers for the faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868...
in 2005 on the occasion of another retrospective at the Henry Gallery in Seattle.
Work by Lynn Hershman Leeson is featured in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, the William Lehmbruck Museum, the ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
, the National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
, the Walker Art Center
Walker Art Center
The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn...
and the University Art Museum, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, in addition to the private collections of Donald Hess and Arturo Schwarz
Arturo Schwarz
Arturo Umberto Samuele Schwarz son of a German father and an Italian mother, is an Italian scholar, art historian, poet, writer, lecturer, art consultant and curator of international art exhibitions...
, among many others. Commissions include projects for the Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
, de Young Museum, Daniel Langlois
Daniel Langlois
Daniel Langlois, OC is the president and founder of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, Ex-Centris, and Media Principia Inc.Daniel Langlois also founded Softimage Inc., serving as its president and chief technology officer from November 1986 to July 1998...
and Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, and Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab may refer to:*Charles M. Schwab , American steel magnate*Charles R. Schwab , founder of the eponymous brokerage*Charles Schwab Corp., an American based brokerage firm...
.
Her three feature films - Strange Culture
Strange Culture
Strange Culture is a 2007 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. It stars Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan.It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
, Teknolust
Teknolust
Teknolust is a 2002 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of Spermheads, Massachusetttopia...
, Conceiving Ada
Conceiving Ada
Conceiving Ada is a 1997 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson and Henry S. Rosenthal. Directors of Photography: Hiro Narita, Bill Zarchy-Synopsis:...
- have been part of the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, the Toronto International Film Festival and The Berlin International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival , also called the Berlinale, is one of the world's leading film festivals and most reputable media events. It is held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in West Berlin in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978...
, among others, and have won numerous awards. She is presently in the editing phase of a feature-length documentary entitled !Women Art Revolution! A (Formerly) Secret History, which is anticipated for release in 2011.
Awards and honors
Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital and the National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, she is also the recipient of a Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, and the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art from the Association for Computer Graphic's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH is the New York–based Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam ....
). In 2004, Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson's working archive.
Lynn Hershman Leeson was the recipient of a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
Fellowship.
In 2010 Hershman Leeson received the [ddaa] d.velop digital art award.
Hershman Leeson is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute is a school of higher education in contemporary art with the main campus in the Russian Hill district of San Francisco, California. Its graduate center is in the Dogpatch neighborhood. The private, non-profit institution is accredited by WASC and is a member of the...
, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
and an A D White Professor at Large at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
.
Selected filmography
- Conceiving AdaConceiving AdaConceiving Ada is a 1997 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. Produced by Lynn Hershman Leeson and Henry S. Rosenthal. Directors of Photography: Hiro Narita, Bill Zarchy-Synopsis:...
(1997) - TeknolustTeknolustTeknolust is a 2002 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of Spermheads, Massachusetttopia...
(2002) - Strange CultureStrange CultureStrange Culture is a 2007 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson. It stars Tilda Swinton and Thomas Jay Ryan.It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.-Synopsis:...
(2007) - !Women Art Revolution!Women Art Revolution!Women Art Revolution is a 2010 documentary film directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson and distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It was released theatrically in the United States on June 1, 2011.-Synopsis:...
A (Formerly) Secret History (2011)
Early works
- Drawings, Collages, Paintings (1958–72)
- Investigation: The integration of humans and machines in line drawings, watercolor, and collage
- Sculptures (1963–74)
- Investigation: Recyclable modular human body casts with recyclable materials
Performances/Installations
- Prudence Juris, Herbert Goode, Gay Abandon (1968–72)
- Investigation: The effect of three simulated art critics on public opinion
- Performance Dinners (1970–83)
- Investigation: Site-specific consumable dinner portraits/performances
- The Dante Hotel (1973-4)
- Investigation: A simulated hotel room, in real life and real time, that reconstructs fictional occupants through fragments of their identity
- Roberta Breitmore (1974–1978)
- Investigation: A simulated person who interacts with real life in real time. This project allowed people to add and contribute to the simulated person. This project is related to the term of identity performance because it allows a person to be created into something that the programmer wants to portray.
- Forming a Sculpture Drama in Manhattan (1974)
- Investigation: Three simultaneous, dispersed site-specific installations with intertwined narratives
- The Floating Museum (1974–1978)
- Investigation: Organization to commission and exhibit public, site-specific, and non-traditional art forms
- Lady Luck: A Double Portrait of Las Vegas (1975)
- Investigation: The AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
mythology of chance and luck
- Investigation: The American
- RE:Forming Familiar Environments (1975)
- Investigation: Construction of social relationships by means of a live interactive game set in a private home
- 25 Windows: A Portrait of Bonwit TellerBonwit TellerBonwit Teller was a department store in New York City founded by Paul Bonwit in 1895 at Sixth Avenue and 18th Street. In 1897 Edmund D. Teller was admitted to the partnership and the store moved to 23rd Street, East of Sixth Avenue...
(1976)- Investigation: Department store windows as a cultural portrait
- MAMCO: Myth America Corporation (1979–80)
- Investigation: A simulated corporate structure to finance artwork
- Non Credited Americans (1981)
- Investigation: The dichotomy of credit and non-credit within a consumer structure
- Deep Contact(1984–89)
- Investigation: The user is allowed to interact with a woman's body parts via a touch screen that changes the story based on the body part that is touched.
- New Acquisitions (1985)
- Investigation: A simulated museum acquisition of Greek sculptures as a site-specific public performance
Photography
- Face Stamps (1966–72)
- Investigation: How the state controls and alters individual identity
- Water Women Series (1975-)
- Investigation: 'Bodies of water' that reflect invisibility, evaporation, and survival
- Hero Sandwich Series (1980–87)
- Investigation: genetically motivated photography
- Time Frame Series (1984)
- Investigation: A manipulation of mediaMedia (arts)In the arts, a media or medium is a material used by an artist or designer to create a work.-Architecture:In the art and science of architecture, the design and construction of buildings and interiors, infrastructure and other physical structures are created...
to mask and to celebrate corporeal vulnerability
- Investigation: A manipulation of media
- Phantom Limb Series (1988-)
- Investigation: Embodied identity in a culture of mass media and surveillance
- Digital Venus Series (1995-)
- Investigation: The disembodiment of the female nude in art history
- Cyborg Series (1997-)
- Investigation: The seduction of cyborgian subjectivity
Video
- Fifty-three videos, various lengths
- Investigation: VideoVideoVideo is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
as alternative space
- Investigation: Video
- Interactivity
- Lorna (1983–84)
- Investigation: Self-referencing games; an interactive branching system of multiple narratives and points of view
- Deep Contact (1984–89)
- Investigation: An interactive touch-sensitive videodisc about the relationship of intimacy to technology
- Room of One's Own (1990-3)
- Investigation: A reverse peep show in which the viewer's 'gaze' both determines the narrative and captured in the act of surveillance
- America's Finest (1994-5)
- Investigation: A camera/gun that transforms the aggressor/user into a victim of surveillance and capture
- Paranoid Mirror (1995-6)
- Investigation: A sensor-driven environment that transforms the user into the interface
- Camera Obscura (1998)
- Investigation: Real-time digital inverse capture becomes a reverse surveillance system
Net Works
- The Dollie Clones (1995-8)
- Investigation: Two telerobotic humanoids that absorb viewers into their internal networks
- The Difference Engine #3 (1995-8)
- Investigation: A networked telerobotic sculpture using the physical and virtual architecture the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie
- Time and Time Again (1999)
- Investigation:A distributed network that integrates viewers in scattered locations into a sensor-driven museum environment
- Synthia Stock Ticker (2000-2)
- Investigation: How changes in the stock market reflect and affect human behavior
- Agent Ruby (2002-) http://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/130695
- Investigation: An artificial intelligence agent with the capacity to develop her memory and knowledge base by interacting with users
- DiNA (2004-)
- Investigation: A networked, artificially intelligent bot running for the political office
Awards
- 2009
Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH
ACM SIGGRAPH is the New York–based Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. It was founded in 1969 by Andy van Dam ....
), New Orleans, LA
Guggenheim Fellow, US & Canada Competition. Creative Arts, Film, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation was founded in 1925 by Mr. and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died April 26, 1922...
, New York, NY
Individual Artist Commissions Award, San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission is the official San Francisco County, USA arts council.The San Francisco Arts Commission It was established in 1932 and runs under the California state arts council, the California Arts Council . The commission is appointed by the major...
, San Francisco, CA
- 2008
Film/Video Grantee, for !Women Art Revolution! A (Formerly) Secret History, Creative Capital, New York, NY
- 2007
Marlon Riggs
Marlon Riggs
Marlon Troy Riggs was a gay African-American filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is. ....
Award, for courage and innovation in cinema, The San Francisco Film Critics Circle
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
The San Francisco Film Critics Circle was founded in 2002 as an organization of film journalists and critics from San Francisco, California based publications....
, San Francisco, CA
- 2006
Innovation that Matters Award, ISEA/ZeroOne, San Jose, CA
Funding, for the production of Life to the Second Power: Animating the Archive, The Daniel Langlois Foundation
Daniel Langlois Foundation
The Daniel Langlois Foundation is a non-profit, philanthropic organization endowed by Daniel Langlois and chartered in 1997 with the mission to support artistic and scientific projects and research dedicated to further general human awareness as well as the understanding of human relation with its...
, Montreal, Canada
- 2005
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
Grant in Media Arts
Positive Innovations Award, International Digital Media and Arts Association, Muncie, IN
Acquisition of Lynn Hershman Leeson archives 1966-2002 by Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Libraries
- 2003
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization in the United States. It was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., then-President and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors.-Overview:...
Feature Film Prize in Science and Technology, for Teknolust
Teknolust
Teknolust is a 2002 movie produced, written, and directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson who, at the time of production, was working in the art department at University of Spermheads, Massachusetttopia...
, Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival was founded to provide a forum for independent filmmakers from around the world to express their vision. The Festival is traditionally held for five days in mid-October in theatre venues from Montauk to Southampton and attracts roughly 15,000 visitors annually...
, East Hampton, NY
- 2000
Cyber Identities, Tribute and Retrospective, Feminale Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Funding, for the production of Agent Ruby, The Daniel Langlois Foundation
Daniel Langlois Foundation
The Daniel Langlois Foundation is a non-profit, philanthropic organization endowed by Daniel Langlois and chartered in 1997 with the mission to support artistic and scientific projects and research dedicated to further general human awareness as well as the understanding of human relation with its...
, Montreal, Canada
- 1999
Golden Nica Award (Grand Prize) in Interactive Art, for The Difference Engine #3, Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
, Linz, Austria
- 1995
Anne Gerber Award, for Paranoid Mirror, Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, USA. It maintains three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened on...
, Seattle, WA
ZKM/Siemens
Siemens
Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
Media Art Prize, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Cyberstar Award, for The Venus Home Page, WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) /GMD, Cologne, Germany
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for America's Finest, Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
, Linz, Austria
- 1994
Reaching through the Screen: A Tribute to Lynn Hershman, Special Tribute, San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
, San Francisco, CA
- 1993
Honorary Mention in Interactive Art, for Room of One's Own, Prix Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica
The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...
, Linz, Austria
- 1991
Barbara Aronofsky Latham Memorial Award, for Conspiracy of Silence, Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
, Chicago, IL
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas is a Lithuanian-born American filmmaker, writer, and curator who has often been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema." His work has been exhibited in museums and festivals across Europe and America.-Biography:...
Award, for Shadow's Song, Humboldt International Short Film Festival, Arcata, CA
First Prize, for Seeing Is Believing, Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
- 1990
Trophée de Cristal (Grand Prize), for Longshot, Montbéliard Video and Television Festival, Montbéliard, France
Prix du Public, for Longshot, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma was known as the Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media until 2004. Founded in 1971, by Claude Chamberlan and Dimitri Eipides, it is an annual independent film festival held in Montreal and features independent films from around the world...
, Montréal, Canada
- 1989
Film of the Year, for Longshot, London Film Festival
London Film Festival
The BFI London Film Festival is the UK's largest public film event, screening more than 300 features, documentaries and shorts from almost 50 countries. The festival, , currently in its 54th year, is run every year in the second half of October under the umbrella of the British Film Institute...
, British Film Institute
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
, London, England
- 1987
Golden Gate Award
Golden Gate Award
Golden Gate Award may refer to:* A film award at the San Francisco International Film Festival* An award part of the GLAAD Media Awards...
, for Confessions of a Chameleon, San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival is the oldest continuously running film festival in the Americas. Organized by the San Francisco Film Society, the International is held each spring for two weeks, presenting an average of 150 films from over 50 countries...
, San Francisco, CA