A pioneer in the fields of interactive computer and net-based media art, San Francisco native Lynn Hershman-Leeson has turned to filmmaking in recent years. Her 2002 feature Teknolust, the middle part of a science fiction trilogy that began with Conceiving Ada, stars Tilda Swinton as a bio-geneticist who creates three “Self Replicating Automatons” from her own DNA. The Village Voice found the film intriguing for addressing such questions as “Can an ambitious woman protect her power? Is technology moral? Is body-on-body sex outmoded?” And, of course, Tilda Swinton fans get the chance to see her in four quite different, playfully conceived roles. Hershman-Leeson will be presenting Teknolust at Hallwalls as part of a program that includes her newest film, a documentary work-in-progress on a topic of local interest: the arrest and, well, persecution of UB professor and artist Steve Kurtz, founding member of the internationally acclaimed Critical Art Ensemble, who faces trial on charges stemming from the FBI’s seizure of harmless biological substances in his home.

Monday, May 15 at 8pm. Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Avenue (854-1694). $7 general, $5 students/seniors, $4 members.