2025/11/04

Mark Amerika Reviews Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Memoir

“Long before social media profiles, online avatars, or algorithmically generated ‘selves,’ Lynn Hershman Leeson was stress-testing how identity could be both manufactured and surveilled, both embodied and dispersed.”
– Artist Mark Amerika, reviewing Lynn Hershman Leeson’s memoir Private I (2025). Amerika argues her Roberta Breitmore (1973) performance prefigured networked identity decades before social media.
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