For over four decades, through performance, photography, installations, artificial intelligence agents, web presences and cinema, Lynn Hershman's work has explored what it is to live in a world of mediated, monitored, and manipulated identities. Corporeal and virtual presences become simulated entities that in turn reveal personal identity and its impact on cultural construction.

Often Hershman's narratives retrieve formerly lost histories that are excavated through technological manipulation. The process brings to the surface the moral consequences of an unpredictable system of covert meanings. All of her work explores encryption of privacy in an era of surveillance as well as personal and societal identity in a time of pervasive yet covert manipulation. Many of the narratives focus on the revitalization and restoration of personal empowerment.

The selected works in this collection focus on broad issues of identity and culture, particularly the technological projections that impact individuals and society.

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2 disc set

Catalog Number: MC-1091	Type: Shorts Compilation	Genre: Art / Artist
Copyright: 2011	Length: 296 minutes	Format:  DVD  Region: 0
TV System: NTSC	ISBN:	UPC/EAN: 880198109194
Label: Hotwire

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Films In Compilation

2011-11-01  Educational Media Reviews Online By Kim Stanton Recommended. Seducing Time is a collection of video works by the pioneering multimedia artist Lynn Hershman Lesson. Hershman spent most of the 60’s and 70’s working primarily in performance and installation art and photographic series. By the late 70’s, advances in new media technology provided the tools and themes Hershman would employ to create the film and multimedia works for which she is best known. This collection primarily looks at Hershman’s videotape work from the early 1990s. Each of the six videos presented deals with identity and the impact technology has on the gray area between fact and fiction (referred to as “faction” in The Electronic Diaries). In these works, the camera is both a tool to record the piece and a pivotal player in the story. This collection, which covers select videotapes created between 1984 and 2008, includes works that build and reflect on each other. Many of the element and themes found in Longshot (‘89) and Desire, Inc (‘90) seem to culminate in Virtual Love (‘93). As a whole, the collection shows the conceptual refinement of Hershman’s ideas on virtual realities, voyeurism and the existence of truth within a world of simulations. Seducing Time is highly recommended for art and film programs that cover New Media Arts. The ideas presented in this collection are also appropriate for the areas of philosophy and women’s studies.

	Conceiving Ada MC-1093, 1997 In this award-winning film which was the first to use “virtual sets,” Academy-Award ® winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first... more >	$US 16.99$US 19.99 Educational Sales Format: DVD, NTSC
	Teknolust by Lynn Hershman Leeson MC-1092, 2003 Academy-Award ® winner Tilda Swinton plays four roles in this award-winning Sci-Fi about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (S.R.A.'s) which she cloned from her own DNA. Though they look human, the S.R.A. cyborgs were bred as... more >	$US 16.99$US 19.99 Educational Sales Format: DVD, NTSC

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