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Lynn’s unending capacity to re-imagine personal identity, performance, surveillance, voyeurism, and interactivity across media has contributed to her status as a groundbreaking feminist and new media artist. She shares this chameleonic characteristic with the late great actor, photographer, and activist Tina Modotti (1896-1942).  As Sarah Coleman, in a review of Patricia Alber’s Modotti biography Shadows, Fire, Snow, quotes:

Modotti was a “shape-shifter,” a woman who was, at different times, an actress, a photographer, a revolutionary and an international undercover agent. By the time she died, in 1942 at the age of 45, Modotti had packed several lifetimes into one short span.

Modotti in the 1920 film The Tiger's Coat.

Sound familiar? We thought so.

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Recently, the indispensable Art and Electronic Media launched from Phaidon Press, with a reception and talk at San Francisco’s Exploratorium.  As Art and Electronic Media’s Wordpress site quotes,

This highly anticipated book demonstrates the formidable history of artistic uses of electronic media, a history that parallels the growing pervasiveness of technology in all facets of life. Over 200 artists and institutions from more than 30 countries are represented. The centrality of artists as theorists and critics is reflected in the focus on artists’ writings. The goal is to enable the rich genealogy of art and electronic media to be understood and seen – literally and figuratively – as central to the histories of art and visual culture.

The author, Edward A. Shanken, has organized the artists and works in the book into seven categories, and Lynn’s CybeRoberta (1995-8) is featured in the section entitled “Bodies, Surrogates, Emergent Systems”! And she’s in good company, sharing this category with works by Laurie Anderson, Chris Burden, and STELARC, to name just a few.

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The San Francisco Nob Hill Gazette has published yet another award winning article, and the title says it all: “Award Winning”!

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