”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.”