"Infinite Time, Interaction, and Electronic Cinema"
Lynn Hershman
Independent Artist and UC Davis

Abstract: Lynn will compress 30 years work into an hour, showing progressive themes on identity, surveillance, voyeurism and interaction. She will show clips of her interactive works and of the film CONCEIVING ADA, as well as slides of other work.

http://www.ted.net/ada -- material about the movie
http://lynnhershman.com -- spooky telerobotic doll installation in SF
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/pop/topic_2/4102/1.html -- film review

Biography: LYNN HERSHMAN is an artist who has worked in many media, including photography, film, video and interactive installations. She has had over 300 exhibitions throughout the world, including The National Museum of Canada, The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and Institute for Contemporary Art, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has compelted 52 videotapes, is the author of the anthology "Clicking In, Hotlinks to a Digital Culture," and recently completed a feature film, Conceiving Ada, which will be released in 1998. She is a professor of Art at the University of California, Davis. She is credited with creating the first interactive video art disk (Lorna, 1979) and will be completing a commission of a multi-user telerobotic sculpture for the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, late this year.