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Take an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.
Lee Boot (00:00): Hi, welcome again to Abstracts and Artifacts. This is Lee Boot. I'm going to be talking to you as you tour the exhibit. If you are hearing this, you've probably gone into the main room of the exhibit, the Latrobe Room here at the Peel, and you're seeing those two monitors on pedestals in front of you. The one on the left is The Dark Gray Monitor is a piece called Making Art with Tape. It's part of a series called Making Art with Tape more accurately, and this one is called Corporate Al Brains. So you're already seeing me do work in this video that is kind of about brains and the way we think and those kinds of things. I was very interested in those things even back in graduate school in the 1980s, and those interests continued as I became a video artist in the 1990s.
(00:58): This work was so fun to produce. We did a lot of these short videos and we put them on cable access television in addition to showing them in galleries and museums. They were filmed, they were videotaped, video recorded, , by my best friend and brother, and actually my cousin, Michael Barnes, who I just, I dedicate this work to because I and I, he's still around. I talk to him all the time. But he just was perfect. He shot it exactly the way I wanted to and worked really hard with me, and I owe so much to him. And this work, um, put me on the map, I think for a lot of curators, but also gave me something to show these neuroscientists who I was starting to speak with. But this work, again, 1994, I was not really working with scientists yet. I was not doing what most people would consider research, even though in a way I think that all art is research. So anyway, it, it really starts to unfold in the piece that you'll see next.
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By The PealeTake an audio tour of a 2022-23 exhibition at The Peale, Baltimore's Community Museum! Listen to artist Lee Boot chat about his show "Lee Boot: Abstracts & Artifacts," on view at The Peale from November 2022-January 2023. You can see videos and interact with more media files using Smartify, the ultimate cultural travel app! Includes 21 narrated stops.
Lee Boot (00:00): Hi, welcome again to Abstracts and Artifacts. This is Lee Boot. I'm going to be talking to you as you tour the exhibit. If you are hearing this, you've probably gone into the main room of the exhibit, the Latrobe Room here at the Peel, and you're seeing those two monitors on pedestals in front of you. The one on the left is The Dark Gray Monitor is a piece called Making Art with Tape. It's part of a series called Making Art with Tape more accurately, and this one is called Corporate Al Brains. So you're already seeing me do work in this video that is kind of about brains and the way we think and those kinds of things. I was very interested in those things even back in graduate school in the 1980s, and those interests continued as I became a video artist in the 1990s.
(00:58): This work was so fun to produce. We did a lot of these short videos and we put them on cable access television in addition to showing them in galleries and museums. They were filmed, they were videotaped, video recorded, , by my best friend and brother, and actually my cousin, Michael Barnes, who I just, I dedicate this work to because I and I, he's still around. I talk to him all the time. But he just was perfect. He shot it exactly the way I wanted to and worked really hard with me, and I owe so much to him. And this work, um, put me on the map, I think for a lot of curators, but also gave me something to show these neuroscientists who I was starting to speak with. But this work, again, 1994, I was not really working with scientists yet. I was not doing what most people would consider research, even though in a way I think that all art is research. So anyway, it, it really starts to unfold in the piece that you'll see next.