Lynn Hershman Leeson was an artist professor of art at UC Davis from 1993 to 2005 and the Film Department Chair at the San Francisco Art Institute. She first arrived in Berkeley in 1963 and went on to attend San Francisco State where she received her masters. During this time she spent multiple occasions at the SFMOMA but found it difficult to get her work into the museum due to various curators and directors. Her first showing with SFMOMA was in December of 2008, specifically a piece called Agent Ruby. In this interview, Leeson discusses her arrival to the Bay Area, visits to museums and galleries, exhibition history, difficulty getting shown, computer interactive art, lack of art community for women, experiences with dealers, curators and directors, Agent Ruby and other web-based and internet-based art, “The Art of Participation,” new media and changes in the art world.