Panel Statement

Panel: Recombinant Culture

This discussion will present ideas of cross dressing on the net, as well as talk about the profusion of alternate identities, recombinant entities, and the look of cheating in cyberspace. The discussion will be supported with video clips.

• Lynn Hershman (USA) is an artist who uses many mediums and is credited with creating the first interactive laserdisc artwork, Lorna. This year, she received The Annie Gerber Award, The Cyberstar Award and the ZKM Media Arts Award. She is a professor of Electronic Art at the University of California at Davis and recently had a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada. Her accomplishments include more than thirty videos distributed internationally.