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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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Anxious to use artificial intelligent robots to improve the world, Rosetta Stone (Tilda Swinton), a bio-geneticist, devises a recipe through which she can download her own DNA into a “live” brew she is growing in her computer.

The Cover of Jackie Stacey's The Cinematic Life of the Gene: A Still From Teknolust

So begins the synopsis of Teknolust, Lynn’s independent science fiction film about love in the age of cloning. It is the subject, along with other classic films like Alien: Resurrection and Gattaca, of feminist theorist Jackie Stacey’s new book The Cinematic Life of the Gene.

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Lynn was recently spotted at Tosca Cafe in North Beach, San Francisco, with legendary filmmaker, author, and artist John Waters. Along with legendary cartoonist Spain Rodriguez and Barbie Nation filmmaker Susan Stern, they were there celebrating the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s seventy-fifth birthday. For more details, read all about it in Catherine Bigelow’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle. And how was YOUR weekend?

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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