Lee Boot, associate director of the Imaging Research Center, is featured in Convergence, a new book from theNational Academy of Sciences that highlights the academy’s exceptional and growing art collection.
Boots contribution includes a commission he created for the collection last year is included in the book and an essay by him pointing to new directions in the collaboration between artists and scientists. Boot’s essay is one of only fourteen in the book. The book alsi includes essays from art and science thought-leaders as E. O. Wilson, Roald Hoffmann, Anne Collins Goodyear, Andrew Solomon, and Lucy Lippard, and artwork from well-known artists such as Tim Rollins and the Start Twins.
The entire book is available online free of charge; Boot’s contribution can be seen here.