Lynn Hershman Leeson

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Lynn Hersman Leeson

Lynn Hersman Leeson -(Link to website) is a multimedia artist working in film, photography, installations and video. I looked up her website and found that she works a lot with female identity and the issues that come with it and the relationship we have have with technology and privacy in the era of surveillance. I found her work interesting because of what she investigates in her work. One of the series she has created is "Phantom Limbs" which is the merge of female bodies with technical limbs and features. She incorporates T.vs, cameras and lenses giving it a very dehumanising effect. These black and white photomontages express her feelings towards how much we rely on technology and media and how we are losing ourselves to the advance of technology, It invades our lives psychologically and physically. using this technique of photomontage and the idea of the invasion of technology and the effect it has on us creates quite disturbing images and cyborg figures.  I really like her work but this is particularly my favourites pieces of work she's done by attacking he media and technology in a way that shows how dehumanising it is and the effect media and technology is starting to have on us. It's a complex message which she has done really well and a a really creative way of expressing her concerns with the future and constant advancing of technology and power the media has over us.