"Shu Lea Cheang has lived a number of different lives: as a queer media activist, a cyberpunk filmmaker, and an early contributor to the canon of internet art. Her work Brandon (1998–99), the first work of web-based art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, conceptualized an online digital panopticon at the same time as addressing the rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a trans man, in Nebraska in 1993."