Artists from "The New Media Reader"

Lynn Hershman, for the past 35 years, has worked in a variety of media including photograhy, video and electronic sculpture and films. She is credited as the first artist to create an interactive art videodisk, entitled LORNA (1979-83), known as a prototype for interactive and non-linear film narrative. Her 51 videotapes and 4 interactive installations have received many international awards. In 1994, she was the first woman to receive a tribute and retrospective at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Later, in 1998, Berlin International Film Festival described her as "the most influential female artist working today." She recently received the German ZKM/Seimens Media Arts Award alongside director Peter Greenaway and theorist Jean Baudrillard.

Sources:
Robert Koch Gallery
Hershmanlandia: The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson
Media Art Net