Lorna, Lynn Hershman Leeson

The artist describes Lorna, made from 1979 to 1984, as the first artwork to use laserdisc technology, and as an early interactive video art disc. Exploiting the interactive capabilities of the medium, the artist enables users to explore and intervene in the world of an agoraphobic woman named Lorna.”

The work highlights the continued importance of interactivity in digital art with roots to cybernetics. Lorna stands as an important example of early digital mass media art, consisting of artists releasing work on digital media that could be distributed easily around the world. According to Casey Reas, the rise of digital mass media is one of the pre-conditions for NFTs.

Maya Man mentioned the impact of Leeson on her work to Le Random.