Lebanon Valley College Hosts Ann Hirsch as Part of Colloquium Series on Gender Feb. 20

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Lebanon Valley College’s 2014–15 Colloquium Series will present video and performance artist Ann Hirsch on Feb. 20 at 12 p.m. in Leedy Theater.

ANNVILLE, PA (01/29/2015)(readMedia)-- Lebanon Valley College's 2014–15 Colloquium Series will present video and performance artist Ann Hirsch as part of this year's series dedicated to the theme of Gender. Her lecture and video presentation, "Women, Sexuality, and the Internet," will highlight the artistic and critical themes that have shaped her young yet accomplished body of work. One of three keynote speakers for the spring Colloquium, Hirsch will present at 12 noon in Leedy Theater on Feb. 20.

Through her various artistic performances, she will illustrate the role gender plays in the formulation of our online identities, the forces of gender politics at work in reality TV, and how ideas of sexuality and adolescence are mediated through the Internet.

Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist who looks at the ways technology has influenced popular culture and gender. Her videos have amassed more than two million views, and she has appeared as a romantic contestant on Vh1's Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair. Hirsch received a 2012–13 Rhizome commission for her two-person play Playground, which debuted at the New Museum, and a 2014 WaveFarm Media Arts grant to continue producing this show. Her companion eBook, twelve, was censored from the iTunes store but is now available through Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her work has been written about for NYmag.com, The New York Times, Rhizome.org, Artforum.com, and more.

The Colloquium Series is a year long integrated series of keynote presentations, guest speakers, films, and academic courses. The 2014–15 series is dedicated to the issue of Gender: it actively and passively shapes our shared destinies. More than an idea, its practice and performance unfold within the constellations of biology and culture, bodies and institutions. In the face of powerful social conventions and the culturally constructed binaries of "male" and "female," "masculine" and "feminine," the complexities of gender challenge us to think beyond the genus, to reach beyond the type and category, and to step into the spectrum of being and becoming. For more information, visit: www.lvc.edu/colloquium.