Zachary Lieberman is an American

new media artist New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D pr ...

, designer,

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, and educator.

Early life and education

Born in 1977, Lieberman holds a B.A. in Fine Arts from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City, United States. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools ...

and both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Design and Technology from

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

Work

Lieberman's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions around the world, including

Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in t ...

, Futuresonic,

CeBIT CeBIT was a computer expo which, at its peak, was the largest and most internationally representative. The trade fair was held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. In its day, it was c ...

, and the

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. He collaborated with artist

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on the interactive audiovisual project "Messa Di Voce". With

Theo Watson Theo Watson is a British artist and programmer. His art work includes interactive video, large-scale public projections, computer vision projects, and interactive sound recordings which have featured in museums and galleries across the world i ...

and Arturo Castro, he created

openFrameworks openFrameworks is an open-source toolkit designed for creative coding founded by Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson and Arturo Castro. OpenFrameworks is written in C++ and built on top of OpenGL. It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, ...

, an

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

C++ C++ (, pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP or CXX) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup. First released in 1985 as an extension of the C programmin ...

library for

creative coding Creative coding is a type of computer programming in which the goal is to create something expressive instead of something functional. It is used to create live visuals and for VJing, as well as creating visual art and design, entertainment (e.g. ...

and graphics. Lieberman has held residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Hangar Center for the Arts in Barcelona. In 2013, he co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, a hybrid of a school, residency and research group in New York City. His work uses technology in a playful way to break down the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible. His art work focuses around

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...

, human-computer interaction, and

computer vision Computer vision tasks include methods for image sensor, acquiring, Image processing, processing, Image analysis, analyzing, and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical ...

. He teaches graphics programming classes at Parsons School of Design. He leads the Future Sketches group at the

MIT Media Lab The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fi ...

Awards & distinctions

* 2018:

Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a Private university, private art school, art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, it is regarded as one of ...

, William O. Steinmetz ’50, Designer-in-Residence. * 2010: AOL, 25x25 artist grant * 2010: Golden Nica in Interactive Art for the project Eyewriter, Prix Ars Electronica. Shared with James Powderly, Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue (US) and Theo Watson (UK). * 2010: Number 36, of the "100 Most Creative People in Business",

Fast Company ''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webb ...

* 2009: Artist's Grant,

New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) serves to foster and advance the arts, culture, and creativity throughout New York State, according to its website. The goal of the council is to allow all New Yorkers to benefit from the contribution ...

* 2008: Honorary Mention at

in the Interactive Art category, for the

OpenFrameworks openFrameworks is an open-source toolkit designed for creative coding founded by Zachary Lieberman, Theo Watson and Arturo Castro. OpenFrameworks is written in C++ and built on top of OpenGL. It runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, ...

project, shared with

* 2006: Award,

CynetArt The following is a list of festivals dedicated to new media art. International and online festivals * The ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art is an annual event consisting of a symposium on issues related to electronic art and an ex ...

competition. * 2006: Award of Distinction, Ars Electronica 2006 Prix. * 2005: Artist's Grant, New York State Council on the Arts * 2005: Nominee, Artist of the Year, 6th Annual

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Rave Award * 2004: Honorable Mention, Interactive Art, Prix Ars Electronica 2004

References

External links

thesystemis, Lieberman's personal website

openFrameworks

Drawn: on Zachary Lieberman’s work

Interview on Rocketboom

Interview on Drawing Room

Unexpected: live performance, technology and the risk of something (or everything) going wrong. ie, learning love chance
talk by Zachary Lieberman at Medialab Prado, 15 October 2009
New York Times article about School for Poetic Computation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lieberman, Zachary Living people American digital artists Hunter College alumni American modern artists American video artists Parsons School of Design alumni 1977 births Parsons School of Design faculty