Over the last five decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her art and films. Cited as one of the most influential media artists, Hershman Leeson is widely recognized for her innovative work investigating issues that are now recognized as key to the workings of society: the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as a tool of empowerment against censorship and political repression. Over the last fifty years she has made pioneering contributions to the fields of photography, video, film, performance, artificial intelligence, bio art, installation and interactive as well as net-based media art. ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, mounted the first comprehensive retrospective of her work titled Civic Radar. A substantial publication, which Holland Cotter named in The New York Times “one of the indispensable art books of 2016.”

在過去的五十年間，琳恩·赫什曼·李森以藝術家與電影人的身份創作許多廣為人知的作品。她作為其中一個最具影響力的媒體藝術家，其作品前瞻並廣受讚譽，被視為對硏究社會運作的重要提關；命題跨越人與科技的關係、身份認同、監控以及運用媒體作為審查及政治打壓的功具等。多年來她在攝影、錄像、表演、人工智能、生物藝術、裝置、互動及互聯網領域中均創作出先峰作品。她的首個全面回顧展於德國ZKM媒體藝術中心展出，並以「Civic Radar」為題，而另外霍蘭德·科特(Holland Cotter)更在紐約時報中將其著作稱為2016年其中一本不可缺少的藝術書籍。