Lynn Hershman Leeson: The Infinity Engine

By Ingeborg Reichle¹
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¹ University of Applied Arts Viena
Source: MEDIA , pp 217-226
Publication Date: April 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781789383263_017
Language: English

From the beginning, questions about the interplay between technology, media, gender and identity have been predominant in the art of American artist Lynn Hershman Leeson. Through film projects such as the fictional narrative Teknolust (2002), she has been in the vanguard in addressing cutting-edge technologies that challenge concepts of individual identity and uniqueness, particularly genetic engineering and cloning, and in showing that new developments in the sciences pertain to culture and the arts. Her most recent projects explore the manipulation of DNA, the production of transgenic organisms and the development of regenerative medical technologies, such as artificial organ fabrication through 3-D bioprinting. These new biomedia – which are profoundly affecting our concepts of human identity, the relationship between past and present and, ultimately, life and death – are the latest frontier for Hershman Leeson.

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Boulboullé, Jenny (2012), ‘Bio art, Descartes as a hands-on practitioner, molecular genetics laboratories’, Ph.D. dissertation, Maastricht: Maastricht University.
da Costa, Beatriz and Philip, Kavita (eds) (2008), Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Darwin, Charles (1859), On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, London: John Murray.
Frudakis, Tony N. (2008), Molecular Photofitting: Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Gessert, George (2010), Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Gregson, Julie (2009), ‘Daimler slammed for controversial blood tests’, Deutsche Welle, 29 October, http://www.dw.de/daimler-slammed-for-controversial-blood-tests/a-4837227. Accessed 14 April 2016.
Howell, Stephen H., Ow, David W., Wood, Keith V., DeLuca, Marlene, De Wet, Jeffrey R. and Helinski, Donald R. (1986), ‘Transient and stable expression of the firefly luciferase gene in plant cells and transgenic plants’, Science, 234:4778, pp. 856–59.
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Kac, Eduardo (1998), ‘Transgenic art’, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, 6, n.pag..
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——— (ed.) (2007), Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Landecker, Hannah (2007), Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Pühler, Alfred (2000), ‘Wie das Luziferasegen des Glühwümchens eine Tabakpflanze zum Leuchten bringt’, in R. M. Matysik (ed.), Zukünftige Lebensformen, Berlin: Vice Versa, pp. 138–43.
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Reichle, Ingeborg (2009), Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, Vienna: Springer.
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Zimmer, Marc (2005), Glowing Genes: A Revolution in Biotechnology, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.

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