Zach Lieberman

Zachary Lieberman (b.1977) is an American visual artist, researcher and educator who creates artwork by writing software. In his work, he creates performances and installations that take human gesture as input and amplify them in different ways — making drawings come to life, imagining what the voice might look like if we could see it, transforming people's silhouettes into music.

Lieberman is notable for developing openFrameworks, an open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He also co-founded The School for Poetic Computation, an artist-run research group focused on examining the lyrical possibilities of code. He is a professor at MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Future Sketches group.

Zachary Lieberman has been listed as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People, and his projects have won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London, as well as being listed in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year.