 – Opening at the Nevada Museum of Art on Saturday, February 8, 2025, “Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI” has been probing new technologies and…){kind=link}
RENO, NV (PNAN) – Opening at the Nevada Museum of Art on Saturday, February 8, 2025, “Lynn Hershman Leeson: Of Humans, Cyborgs, and AI” has been probing new technologies and making works about cyborgs since the 1960s, while also engaging with issues of surveillance, gender and privacy. She provides an offer of proof the cyborg as an inevitable outcome of human development in a technologically driven society.
This exhibition presents three of Hershman Leeson’s most recent videos that explore the interrelationship between humans, cyborgs and artificial intelligence, including three different techno-female personas, in three related videos, and in the last one she introduces her newest alter-ego.
In the first work, “Shadow Stalker” 2019, Leeson alerts people to the fact that everyone has an online alter ego, created perhaps unwittingly, through the data driven footprints they generate. In “Logic Paralyzes the Heart” 2021, we meet the very first cyborg, played by actress Joan Chen. While on a retreat, she reflects on the past and offers her visions of a troubled future, particularly in relation to climate change. The final work, “Cyborgian Rhapsody: Immortality” 2023, she introduces a new cyborg, created with the help of AI, who goes by Sarah and bears a striking resemblance to the artist. Born in the future 2029, Sarah meets two human friends online, after interrupting their social media feeds. In each of these works, Hershman Leeson tells a cautionary tale about the potential misuses and abuses of technology, which has already begun to radically reshape human relationships, societies and the history of life on Earth.
The show closes September 7, 2025.