It has been 40 years since the multimedia artist started her magnum opus, The Electronic Diaries of Lynn Hershman Leeson 1984–2019, a work that foreshadowed much of art’s interest in the technological mediation of identity and in the hybridisation of personal and political trauma. The Electronic Diaries was the centrepiece of her exhibition at the Julia Stoschek Foundation in Düsseldorf – which surveyed five decades of performance, photography, video, interactive net-based media and robotic art – and it featured in her MoMA, New York, film retrospective in June. At eighty-three, Hershman Leeson is still innovating (BAMPFA paid tribute to her achievements as a ‘creative visionary’ exploring feminism and technology); the us exhibition also included her four-part ‘Cyborg Series’, including Cyborgian Rhapsody – Immortality (2023), written, performed and designed by an artificial intelligence chatbot, while the artist’s earlier New York show at Bridget Donahue featured Eternally Yours (2023), a sculpture that housed a refrigerated antiaging vaccine. ‘There’s no need to be afraid of these new tools,’ the techno-optimist artist assured Artnet.