Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI

Hershman Leeson has been probing new technologies and making works about cyborgs since the 1960s, while also engaging with issues of surveillance, gender, and privacy. She proffers the cyborg as an inevitable outcome of human development in a technologically driven society. Defined as “a fictional or hypothetical person whose physical abilities are extended beyond normal human limitations by mechanical elements built into the body,” cyborgs are antecedents of artificial intelligence. This exhibition presents three of Hershman Leeson's most recent videos (made in the last five years) that explore the interrelationship between humans, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence. Similarly, in this exhibition Hershman Leeson presents three different techno-female personas, in three related videos—in the last one she introduces her newest alter-ego.