[LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON] In the mid-1970s, maybe a little earlier, I had done a sculptural painting of a man.
And a collector went to a gallery and bought the work.
I wanted to meet him, but the gallery didn't want me to meet him
because "Lynn" could be either male or female.
Somehow he found out I was female
and he returned the work because he said that women weren't good investments--
women artists didn't make a good investment.
He was wrong. [LAUGHS]
I did start out doing painting and drawing
and then moved into sculpture.
Then sculpture with sound.
[RECORDING] ...trying to remember who we are.
Video,
film,
artificial intelligence.
Then computer-based work.
I do work that confronts where we are in society.