The EyeWriter, Zachary Lieberman with F.A.T, OpenFrameworks, & Graffiti Research Lab
This week we are announcing the pairings of artists and technologists for
Seven on Seven. Teammates
Zachary Lieberman &
Bre Pettis are both experienced tinkerers, building functional devices and conceiving new ideas for them. Lieberman's work in augmented reality and Pettis' innovations in 3D printing are examples of how the teammates explore issues related to materialization and representation...
Zachary Lieberman is an artist with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. He creates artwork that uses technology in a playful and seamless way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He makes performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, kinetic response and magic. Most recently, he helped create visuals for the facade of the new Ars Electronica Museum, wrote software for an augmented reality card trick, performed by Marco Tempest, and helped develop an open source eye tracker, the
eyewriter, to help a paralyzed graffiti artist draw again. In addition to making artistic projects, Lieberman is co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He is a professor at Parsons School of Design. In 2010, he was listed in Fast Company's 100 most creative people in Business, and the EyeWriter project was listed in
Time magazine's best inventions of 2010.
Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention,
innovation, and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for
creativity. He is a founder of
Makerbot, a company that produces
robots that make things, a founder of
Thingiverse which is a universe
of downloadable designs, and a founder of
NYCResistor, a hacker
collective in Brooklyn. He dreams of manufacturing tools being
absurdly common and likely finding a place next to your toaster.