Private I, Lynn Hershman Leeson
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Artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s groundbreaking memoir chronicles a fearless career at the intersection of feminism, art, and technology—from the 1970s conceptual scene to today’s AI age.
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Private I: A Memoir
by Lynn Hershman Leeson
Hardcover – November 4, 2025
A visionary artist’s life told through the lenses of feminism, technology, and defiant imagination.
In Private I, multimedia pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson reflects on five decades of creating art that anticipated our digital age. From her radical 1970s alter-ego performance Roberta Breitmore to her cyberfeminist films starring Tilda Swinton (Conceiving Ada, Teknolust), Hershman Leeson has consistently explored questions of identity, surveillance, and selfhood long before they entered mainstream discourse.
Told with candor and wit, her memoir follows a life spent defying artistic and social boundaries. Working outside institutions that dismissed women artists, she turned unconventional spaces—department store windows, prisons, housing projects—into laboratories of innovation. Alongside her own creative evolution, she documents her work supporting others through The Floating Museum and the groundbreaking documentary !W.A.R. (Women, Art, Revolution).
Blending personal history with the evolution of digital art, feminism, and AI, Private I offers a rare inside view of a woman who foresaw—and shaped—the culture of the 21st century. It’s an unforgettable story of resilience, reinvention, and the courage to create on one’s own terms.
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