Zach Lieberman
"Zach Lieberman is a New York-based artist, educator, and programmer who integrates human gesture and interactive technology to create immersive, code-based installations and performances. His practice centers on transforming human input, such as drawing and movement, into dynamic visual and auditory expressions, revealing playful and unexpected forms of interaction. Lieberman’s projects have garnered awards including the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica and Interactive Design of the Year from the Design Museum London, and his work has been featured in institutions such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Hunter College and an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. Additionally, Lieberman co-created openFrameworks, an influential open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding, and co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, where he explores and teaches the expressive potential of code. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab." - ArtBlocks
Box Light Studies
"As an artist who works with code and produces sketches on a daily basis, Zach Lieberman has come to realize that he has just a few topics he deeply cares about, and one of those is light. He tries to produce images with a sense of illumination, where it feels like color, rhythm, and form are explored through that illumination, and he feels like he's captured some essence of what he sees in the world. He says, 'I often see something on the sidewalk, like sunlight reflecting off a shiny surface, and wonder how to code that. At night, I look at a car's headlights coming towards me and see rays of light, almost like a prism. I see these things and wonder how to communicate them through my work. At the same time, my work changes the way I see. I explore algorithms of light and reflection via code and I start to see the world differently.' This back-and-forth between observing and creating and observing is critical and shapes the work Lieberman does. As an artist, Lieberman tries to make images that make him feel something, with the hope that others feel something. He creates images that change how he sees, with the hope that they may change how others see. He loves to sketch, and this project is a view into his studies with light." - ArtBlocks