Zachary Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator with a simple goal: he wants you to be surprised. In his work, he creates performances and installations that take human gestures as inputs and amplify them in different ways—making drawings come to life, imagining what the voice might look like if we could see it, or transforming people’s silhouettes into music. He creates artwork through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks, an open-source tool kit for creative coding, and helped cofound the School for Poetic Computation, which examines the lyrical possibilities of code. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, where he helps lead the Future Sketches group.
