Lynn Hershman Leeson Receives the 2010 d.velop Digital Art Award

Lynn Hershman Leeson (* 1941) utilizes new media since the 1970s as a cutting-edge artist. She has been devoted to social issues of contemporary society: protection of privacy, gender role, the changing concept of identity in the age of virtualty

BERLIN.- American artist and filmmaker
Lynn
Hershman Leeson has been awarded the 2010 d.velop digital art award
[ddaa].
Given biannually by the Digital Art Museum [DAM], Berlin, Germany. This
international prize honours an artist’s lifetime achievement in the
field of new
media. In addition to receiving a monetary award (20,000 Euro), Hershman
Leeson
will have a retrospective exhibition accompanied by a catalogue at the
Kunsthalle Bremen in Germany. The [ddaa] is the most import prestigious
lifetime
award to be given to artists in digital arts.

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