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Lynn Hershman Leeson in Conversation with Natasha Boas

Sunday, January 7, 2024 | 3–4:30pm

ADMISSION: Free with Museum admission

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2024-01-07 15:00:00 UTC2024-01-07 23:00:00 UTC America/Los_AngelesThe CJM - 736 Mission St, San Francisco, CALynn Hershman Leeson in Conversation with Natasha BoasLynn Hershman Leeson is a visionary artist whose films, sculpture, and media art anticipated the digital revolution including the prevalence of AI-generated technology. Her work often blurs the lines between reality and fiction, reflecting the ambiguity and complexity of our lives in a digital world. By engaging with themes of surveillance, identity, an expanded discourse of feminisms, and the power dynamics within technology, Hershman Leeson offers a unique perspective on how we navigate a world that is increasingly shaped by virtual interactions and surveillance technologies.  For the inaugural Marilyn Yolles Waldman Distinguished Speaker series, Lynn Hershman Leeson will be joined by celebrated curator Natasha Boas to explore how Hershman Leeson’s work routinely examines our relationship with technology, addressing both its potential to empower women and the dangers it poses when misused or commodified—and ultimately challenges us to consider the ways in which we can create a more inclusive and equitable digital landscape. 

Lynn Hershman Leeson is a visionary artist whose films, sculpture, and media art anticipated the digital revolution including the prevalence of AI-generated technology. Her work often blurs the lines between reality and fiction, reflecting the ambiguity and complexity of our lives in a digital world. By engaging with themes of surveillance, identity, an expanded discourse of feminisms, and the power dynamics within technology, Hershman Leeson offers a unique perspective on how we navigate a world that is increasingly shaped by virtual interactions and surveillance technologies. 

For the inaugural Marilyn Yolles Waldman Distinguished Speaker series, Lynn Hershman Leeson will be joined by celebrated curator Natasha Boas to explore how Hershman Leeson’s work routinely examines our relationship with technology, addressing both its potential to empower women and the dangers it poses when misused or commodified—and ultimately challenges us to consider the ways in which we can create a more inclusive and equitable digital landscape.

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About the Series

The Marilyn Yolles Waldman Distinguished Speaker Series is an endowed fund dedicated to supporting an annual lecture illuminating the achievements of Jewish artists and thinkers in the public sphere who make significant contributions to excellence in art and culture.

About the Speakers
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson (b. 1941) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. Over the last five decades, Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. One of the most influential media artists, she is widely recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. Over the last forty years she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation, and interactive as well as net-based media art. 

Natasha Boas
Natasha Boas

San Francisco and Paris-based Dr. Natasha Boas is a prolific transnational independent curator, writer and scholar who has worked for major institutions for over three decades. Dr. Boas has been dedicated to activating transnational, Indigenous, and diverse critical contemporary dialogues while creating visibility for otherwise overlooked artists. Boas appeared in Lynn Hershman Leeson's Vertighost and is a long time collaboratrice of the artist's. 

supporters

Major support for Public Programs is generously provided by Grants for the Arts and Taube Philanthropies

Image Credits

Header image: Installation view, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Staged Intimacy 1974-2019, March 20–May 29, 2021, ROZENSTRAAT–a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam. Photography by Gert Jan van Rooij. Courtesy the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.