Lee Boot is an experimental media artist and researcher exploring ways knowledge and information can be more inclusive and more influential. He is a Research Associate Professor and the Director at the Imaging Research Center at UMBC. Lee’s research has produced innovative films, video, and interactive works to engage people with knowledge in the humanities, sciences, and arts to serve educational, health and other social goals. His work has been broadcast, screened, published online, and exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Johannesburg Biennial in South Africa, and the National Academy of Science. His findings have been published in journals and presented at conferences on art, education, new media and digital communications.