Zachary Lieberman is an American

new media artist New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of new media, electronic media technology, technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video g ...

, designer,

computer programmer A computer programmer, sometimes referred to as a software developer, a software engineer, a programmer or a coder, is a person who creates computer programs — often for larger computer software. A programmer is someone who writes/creates ...

, 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. 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. It also admi ...

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

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

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 the ...

, Futuresonic,

CeBIT CeBIT was the largest and most internationally representative computer expo. The trade fair was held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world's largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany. In its day, it was considered a barometer of cur ...

, and the

Off Festival OFF Festival is an alternative music festival series held annually since 2006. Until 2009 it was held at Słupna Park in Mysłowice, Poland in August and lasts four days. OFF Festival from 2010 takes place in Katowice in Dolina Trzech Stawow. Th ...

. He collaborated with artist Golan Levin 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 the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

C++ C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...

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 The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is a hybrid of a school, residency and research group that was founded in 2013 in New York. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, art, hardware and the ...

, 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 with the aid of computers. Today, computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great de ...

, human-computer interaction, and

computer vision Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the hum ...

. He teaches graphics programming classes at Parsons School of Design.

Awards & distinctions

* 2018:

Maryland Institute College of Art The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a private art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of the oldest art colleges in the U ...

, 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 a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design. It publishes six print issues per year. History ''Fast Company'' was launched in November 1995 by Alan Web ...

* 2009: Artist's Grant,

New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell (1905–1996), ...

* 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 exh ...

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

WIRED magazine ''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online magazine, online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquar ...

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

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 Modern artists American video artists Parsons School of Design alumni 1977 births Parsons School of Design faculty