2023/05/15

Lynn Hershman Leeson Nails Answer on What Corrupts Art

”Does money corrupt art?”—“No, lack of money does.”
– Swiss curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, asking American multimedia artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson the perennial question. In the latest entry to Obrist’s ongoing interview series for Gagosian Quarterly, Leeson delivers a number of zingers as well as insight into her past and current practice. “I’m working on the final part of The Cyborgian Rhapsody, a project I began in 1996 about the evolution of AI and how it affects identity and culture,” she reveals. “Part 4 was written and performed by a GPT-3 chatbot that thinks it looks and sounds like me thirty years ago.”
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