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Edited: June 12, 2023
Zach Lieberman
Pronouns
He/him
Date and place of birth
b. 1977
Current location
New York, NY
Year(s) of residency and/or fellowship
2002–03, Project Resident; 2007–08, Research Resident
Member of
Golan Levin and Zach Lieberman

Zach Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator based in New York City. Lieberman creates artwork with code, and focuses on building experimental drawing and animation tools.

He makes interactive environments that invite participants to become performers. His main focus is how computation can be used as medium for poetry.

Lieberman has held residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, Dance Theater Workshop, and the Hangar Center for the Arts in Barcelona.

Lieberman is a Co-Founder of the School for Poetic Computaton (SPFC), a school examining the lyrical possibilities of code, and a Co-Creator of openFrameworks, an open source c++ framework for creative coding, and

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