Zachary Lieberman

(New York, USA, 1977)

Artist, designer, computer programmer, researcher and teacher of new media. His projects address poetic creation through computing. It uses technology in a playful way to break the fragile border between the visible and the invisible. He produces installations, online works, concerts and performances that revolve around kinetic and gestural themes, interactive creations and sound synthesis. He was a professor at the Parsons School of Design teaching classes on audio-visual synthesis and creative image processes. In 2013 he created the School of Poetic Computing.

Participated in MediaLab with the workshop Interactive? for the collaborative development of digital art projects, sound art, critical design and educational applications. The main purpose of the workshop was to question and reformulate the idea of "interactivity" on a conceptual, technological, social and cultural level. Interactive? proposes transforming the exhibition space into a place for production, meeting and debate. This workshop focused on the idea of hacking using open hardware, open source, and programming tools to create new forms and modes of expression.
Another of his contributions to the project was the "Making things move" workshop that offered different approaches to digital animation techniques that use processing, and explored how these techniques can be integrated into interactive and audiovisual systems to create playful and intuitive forms of expression, under the key to how to make things move in an interesting, compelling and realistic way.