Lynn Hershman Leeson

It's a month since I last entered anything into this blog. For one thing, I've been taking a class in Entended Media at the University of Saskatchewan, where I work full time in the Library. The art department here has only one class having to do with digital media, and a half-credit class dealing with the history of art on the Internet. My Extended Media projects have been real (whatever that is) installations so far, but I hope that the next two will be computer-based. If my proposal is successful, perhaps I will post the link here.

Back to the purpose of this blog (see the December,2003, archive):

As part of my continuing quest to find information about artists listed on Randall Packer's Zero Gravity, even after links lead to blank pages, 404 errors, and 'could not be found' messages, I would like to report that when I found that the link under Lynn Hershman's name didn't lead anywhere and clicking on the ZKM link took me to the German version of the main web site, I didn't give up. A search of the English version of ZKM's site finds links to some of Hershman's work - text is in German. Near the bottom of each page is the word 'Linkempfehlung' followed by a link to the work on Hershman's site - Examples: America's Finest or Lorna

Lynn Hershman - Private Eye [December 5, 2006 - now called The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson] is the artist's webpage and while there is a lot of information, including video clips and explanations of her work, I found that the Investigations link didn't work for me although the Timeline link works well. [Dec. 5/06 - Website is updated and links have been renamed.]

As with many things on the Internet, there is more than one way of accessing information about Hershman's work. For instance, in the Timeline, clicking on Conceiving Ada 1994-1997 , and then on 'More Information', provides details of making the film about "the brilliant mathmatician, Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace". Clicking on 'Official Site Link' takes you to audio clips, info on the film and on Lynn Hershman Leeson.