Lynn Hershman Leeson is one of the first and most influential media artists. During the past five decades she has done pioneering work in the fields of photography, video, film, performance, installation, and interactive and net-based media art. Hershman Leeson's major themes are the construction of identity, surveillance and control, and life in the age of genetic engineering. Her most well-known series is Roberta Breitmore (1973-78), a fictional character embodied by her and three other women, in part simultaneously. A kind of clone of the artist, her life is staged in real time and space. In her most recent works, Hershman Leeson includes web applications and mass communication media such as smartphones, as well as the latest scientific developments in the field of genetics and regenerative medicine, including 3D bioprinters that create human body parts.

Exhibition: Deichtorhallen 14.6.201517.1.2016 PETER WEIBEL (* 1944, Odessa) is an internationally known media and conceptual artist, curator, and art and media theoretician. Since the 1960s his work has firmly regarded artistic creativity as an open-ended field of activity. He was head of the ZKM, Karlsruhe until 2020. Since 2017 he has been director of the Peter Weibel Research Institute for Digital Culture at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

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Peter Weibel. Geboren 1944 in Odessa. Studierte Literatur, Film, Mathematik, Medizin und Philosophie in Wien und Paris. 1981-84 Gastprofessur für Gestaltungslehre und bildnerische Erziehung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. 1981 Gastprofessur am College of Art and Design in Halifax, Kanada. 1982-85 Professor für Fotografie an der Gesamthochschule Kassel. 1984-89 Associate Professor for Video and Digital Arts, Center for Media Study, State University of New York at Buffalo, N.Y. 1989-94 Direktor des Instituts für Neue Medien an der Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. Seit 1984 Professor für visuelle Mediengestaltung an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. 1986-95 künstlerischer Berater und Leiter der Ars Electronica in Linz. 1993-99 Österreich-Kommissär der Biennale von Venedig. 1993-99 künstlerischer Leiter der Neuen Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz. Seit 1999 Vorstand des Zentrums für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe. Peter Weibel ist sowohl als Kurator nationaler und internationaler Ausstellungen wie auch als Autor zahlreicher herausragender Publikationen eine anerkannte Kapazität.