CCA Alumna Reps Lynn AND the Left Coast at Media Modes
Original Receipt from the Dante Hotel (1973-4)
This Saturday the 14 of November, the School of Visual Arts in New York City is hosting Media Modes, a graduate student conference dedicated to emerging theorists and their scholarship on art and technology. Of course, no event of this kind would be complete without addressing Lynn’s oeuvre, especially one including a session entitled “Body, Identity, and the Virtual Space”! This session is one of two (the other being “Spatial Experience and Social Networking”) which kick off the day, and presenting on Lynn’s work is up-and-coming critical writer and curator Jaime Austin. A 2008 graduate of California College of Art’s School of Curatorial Practice, Austin will act as an assistant curator for the 2010 01SJ Biennial, where Lynn has also, in the past, exhibited innovative work in new media. Her paper is entitled “Space, Identity, and Embodiment—On Lynn Hershman Leeson’s The Dante Hotel and Life Squared”. She is the only presenter from a West-Coast school in attendance, although other presenters hail from prestigious programs on both a national and international scale.