Collections/August 2021

Three by Lynn Hershman Leeson

These strikingly prescient musings on technology, identity, and surveillance from innovative artist-filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson—whose work is also the subject of a major career retrospective this year at the New Museum in New York—toy cannily with the boundaries between the real and the virtual. All starring the inimitable Tilda Swinton—who plays, variously, nineteenth-century mathematics genius Ada Lovelace ( Conceiving Ada ), a scientist and her three identical “Self-Replicating Automatons” ( Teknolust ), and the wife of artist and wrongfully accused “bioterrorist” Steve Kurtz ( Strange Culture )—these genre-defying works offer a boldly feminist, philosophically adventurous perspective on the brave new technological and political landscape that took shape at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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