Zach Lieberman (US)
Lead Artist, 2007 : Workshop 1, Bristol
Zachary Lieberman’s work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response.
Working with collaborator Golan Levin, he created a series of installations Remark and Hidden Worlds, which presented different interpretations of what the voice might look like if we could see our own speech. These were followed with Messa Di Voce a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two abstract vocalists were radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. The collaborators were recently nominated for Wired magazine’s artist of the year award and have toured and exhibited their works widely, much to the delight of their audiences.
Lieberman has held artist residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, and most recently at Dance Theatre Workshop, where he investigated how technology might be used to aid the choreographic process.
He is currently touring a concert-performance, Drawn in which live painted forms appear to come to life, rising off the page and reacting to the world around them. Lieberman also recently developed with NESTA a suite of software for disabled students that transforms their movement into an audio-visual response as a means for performance and self-expression.