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CATEGORIES:Film and Media Screenings
DESCRIPTION:This event will feature a screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson's C
 onceiving Ada followed by a Q&A with the director. \n\nIn her inspired cros
 sover from video artist to feature writer/ director\, Lynn Hershman Leeson 
 grafts past and future into an ingenious high-tech fantasy of time travel. 
 Her subject is the legendary and real-life Lady Ada Lovelace\, Lord Byron's
  daughter\, who grew into a math genius and the inventor of THE FIRST compu
 ter language . Casting the inimitable Tilda Swinton as Ada\, Hershman Leeso
 n creates an aura of magic that plays against modern computer visions as it
  reconstructs a life dominated by love and SCIENCE. Conceiving Ada concerns
  the obsession of one contemporary hacker\, Emmy\, obsessed with inventing 
 a mechanism that will enable her to enter the past and make direct contact 
 with Lovelace\, her object of fascination. Emmy is on a rescue mission: to 
 connect with Ada and access her knowledge before her own premature death ob
 literates the legacy. (Excerpt from B. Ruby Rich\, 1998 Sundance Film Festi
 val program)\n\nLynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for
  her art and films. Her artwork is featured in the public collections of th
 e Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum\, the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (Z
 KM)\, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, The Tate Modern\, The National
  Gallery of Canada\, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art\, i
 n addition to many celebrated private collections. She received the d.velop
  digital art award (d.daa)\, in Berlin\, for Lifetime Achievement in the fi
 eld of Media. She has also received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Founda
 tion Fellowship. A major retrospective and catalogue is scheduled in 2014 a
 t the ZKM Museum in Germany and the Museum der Moderne Museum in Salzburg. 
 Five of her feature films – The Electronic Diary\, Conceiving Ada\, Teknolu
 st\, Strange Culture\, and !Women Art Revolution – have been showcased at t
 he Sundance Film Festival\, Toronto Film Festival and The Berlin Internatio
 nal Film Festival\, among others. They have also been awarded many honors\,
  including the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Writing and Directing and the Best
  Film on Art in 2011. All of her feature films are in the collection of the
  Museum of Modern Art.\n\nShe is currently serving as the 2013-2014 Dorothy
  H. Hirshon "Director in Residence" in the School of Media Studies at The N
 ew School.\n\nSponsored by The School of Media Studies.
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LOCATION:Theresa Lang Community and Student Center\, Arnhold Hall\, The Lan
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SUMMARY:Lynn Hershman Film Screening and Q&A
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