Archive for May, 2009

Reflections on the Electric Mirror

Did we take the title of this post from one of Lynn’s past works? No Ma’am. This is the title of a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum: “Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video”.

Brooklyn Museum: Reflections on the Electric Mirror

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05 2009

TYVM Omnibus

Lynn Hershman Leeson Bio on Guggenheim site

OMG! Next week is almost here and we haven’t sent out our thank you’s. So we have invented a new kind of post which we are calling a TYVM Omnibus (where  TYVM = “Thank You Very Much”).

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05 2009

“America’s Finest” Visits Germany

interactive video installation

An exhibition employee examines the interactive video installation America's Finest.

Now on display at Bilderschlachten (Image Battles) at Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche in Osnabrueck, Germany, America’s Finest (1993-5) utilizes an M-16 rifle and manipulated optics to question the identity of agressor and victim and the role played by images of war in the psyche of the observer.

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05 2009

360 Degrees of Lynn’s Studio

portion of panorama of Lynn's studio

Look closely at this panoramic shot- there’s Lynn, in the center of it all! This is her San Francisco studio, captured by The Studio Tour, a collaboration between photographers Lucas and Kathie Cichon.

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05 2009