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CONCEIVING
ADA is a refreshing creation of isomorphism between contemporary
Emmy and historical Ada Lovelace. The notion of Emmy's to create
a digitalized vehicle to carry her into the past, aka to carry the
past into her present, grants her a Descartes genius award. Much
of the story involves Ada's projects of creating a computer generated
digitized video of a dog; Charles Babidge as her teacher, and Ada
dosing herself with opium. Ada writes of the soul of a machine.
There is such intensity of life in her that her message "Ran Out
of Time" "Ran Out of Time" at the last is particularly haunting.
Director/Creator
Lynn Hershman Leeson is similarly intense and daring to the two
women subjects of the film CONCEIVING ADA. She began electronic
media explorations in San Francisco, by constructing an internet
design programme with C++ and JAVA. She has worked since 1993 on
public television festivals, with German and French television contributions.
In 1979 she produced the first interactive laserdisc, with the help
of the National Endowment for the Arts. In Toronto Lynn Hershman
Leeson relates how her "lab" is not "staffed", per say, as it is
mainly her kitchen. From this cool kitchen emerge wondrous interactivities
and experiments.
Cinternational
reviews "Conceiving Ada."
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