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!WAR IS GOING TO TORONTO!

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The livingblog is thrilled to announce that Lynn is the recipient of the 2010/2011 d.velop digital art award! Given biannually by the Digital Art Museum [DAM] to recognize exceptional career achievement, the [ddaa] is the most prestigious lifetime award to be given to artists in digital arts. And Lynn was nominated in good company, alongside the esteemed Lillian Schwartz, Roy Ascott, Roman Verostko, and Hiroshi Kawano.

The newest recipient of the d.velop digital art award!

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Roberta's Multiples

While Eyjafjallajokull has been belching fire and smoke across the European continent, stopping planes in their tracks, Lynn has necessarily had to make some changes to her agenda. Both of her upcoming events in England have been rescheduled to accommodate the angry volcano. Here are the details:

First, her “Touched Talk”, which was scheduled for today as part of the ramp-up to the Liverpool Biennial, has been moved to May 12. If you haven’t bought tickets yet, they aren’t available on the “Touched Talk” website at this moment, but we’ll make sure to let you know if they’ve sold out and when any remaining tickets are available! This will be an unprecedented chance to see !Women Art Revolution! a (formerly) secret history, in progress.

Next up: “The Complete Roberta Breitmore Symposium”, which was previously scheduled for April 24 at the  University of Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery, will now occur on May 15. This is the exhibition tour and panel discussion featuring Lynn, Jackie Stacey, and Maria Balshaw, and it is FREE. Again, space is at a premium, so if you’d like to attend, contact the gallery immediately. No really, this second. Email events.whitworth@manchester.ac.uk or call 0161 275 7450.

Roberta's Physical Stance

Roberta Breitmore may have been exorcised in 1978, but she abides, in both physical and virtual form. We here at the livingblog are ecstatic to announce two upcoming opportunities to further explore the worlds of Roberta Breitmore. The best part? Lynn herself will be present for both!

Roberta's Camouflage

Roberta's Interim Driver's License

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This evening, March 2, join us at Intersection for the Arts for “Clips and Conversation”, part of their Open Process series and an unprecedented opportunity presented by Bay Area Women in Film and Media! Not only will participants get a sneak peek of clips from TWO forthcoming documentaries about feminist art- Lynn’s !Women Art Revolution: a (formerly!) secret history, and Joan Braderman’s The Heretics- but they’ll also participate in a post-screening forum with Lynn, The Heretics producer Crescent Diamond,  BAWIFM President Simone Nelson, and other exciting academic and artistic voices. Considering !WAR won’t be released until Fall 2010, this will truly be an evening to remember and a chance to get in on the ground floor of the dialogue this project will generate across the art world. Here at the livingblog, we hope to collect and disseminate this dialogue as much as we can. In the meantime, take yourself here for more details.  Of course, for BAWIFM members, the event is free.

In an era of digital and biological sampling, life – especially artificial intelligence based life is self replicating and autonomous, and utilizes sophisticated apparatus to proclaim the erasure the death itself.

So reads an excerpt from Lynn’s essay “Evolutionary Suicide”, commissioned for the current, ongoing Guggenheim Forum, Beyond Material Worth. The essay, along with the writings of other respected intellectuals from a wide range of fields, will be included in the “Declarations” portion of the Forum, concerning the notion of progress and how it applies to their investigations and bodies of work.

Agent Ruby (2002-), an artifical intelligence agent with the capacity to develop her memory and knowledge base by interacting with users.

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As you may or may not have noticed, there have been a few changes to the digital face of the livingblog lately. In anticipation (and celebration!) of Lynn’s new documentary project, !Women Art Revolution: a (formerly!) secret history, we’ve been doing some renovations!

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Microcinema International has announced its catalog of releases for 2010, which will offer not one, not two, but THREE ways to get your paws on a piece of Lynn’s cinematic oeuvre!

Lynn Hershman Leeson in stills from Binge (l), and First Person Plural (r), both from The Electronic Diaries Series

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Iterations, original and virtual, of the Dante Hotel

While we here on Pacific Standard Time have not even finished our first pot of coffee, amazing things are happening on the other side of the world (and, in other worlds)! For example, part of ISEA2009: The Exhibition has opened at the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast. Simultaneously, the works featured in this exhibition are viewable from around the globe on Kriti Island (not the one in Greece, the one in Second Life). This synchronicity creates a space to explore both the physical and virtual gallery environments, where viewers and visitors can encounter the work, and also each other, as both bodies and avatars. The Dante Hotel Regenerated is one of the works installed on Kriti Island and at Golden Thread, as part of Kritical Spaces: The Kritical Works in SL II Project. ISEA2009: the Exhibition is presented in conjunction with the ISEA2009 Symposium, and

addresses contested spaces, focusing on the environment, political and economic conflicts and the human body. Curated by Kathy Rae Huffman, it will display an exciting range of innovative and challenging work at the interface of art, science, communication and technology.

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