Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Dante Hotel (1973–74) is recognized as one of the pioneering site-specific public art installations in San Francisco. Originally presented in a real hotel room staged with remnants of fictional occupants, it was recast as Life² in the virtual world of Second Life in the course of collaborative project with SHL, funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The resulting mixed reality work includes live images and online access to the project in the galleries alongside artifacts, prints, and documents from the original installation. 

Life² appears as part of SFMOMA’s major fall 2008 exhibition The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, a thematic overview of participation-based art highlighting key historical and contemporary works by more than 40 artists, including Vito Acconci, John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Erwin Wurm. The show will run from November 8, 2008–February 8, 2009