Lynn Hershman Leeson is chair of the Film department. She is credited with creating the first interactive laserdisk artwork, Lorna (1979-1983). Hershman has received the ZKM Media Arts Award; a Flintridge Fellowship for Lifetime Achievements in the Visual Arts; the Golden Nica for interactive arts at Ars Electronica; an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award for her film, Teknolust; the Seattle Art Museum’s Anne Gerber Award; and the Cyberstar Award. Hershman Leeson is currently a professor of electronic art at the University of California, Davis. Her work is in numerous collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Hess Collection, Sonoma.