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    Zachary Lieberman Awarded MICA Steinmetz Design Residency

    On his hospital bed, legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher, and activist, named Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2003 uses the EyeWriter designed by Zachary Lieberman and collaborators to write his alias. Photo:  The Systemis

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    Artist, researcher, design technologist and educator Zachary Lieberman has been awarded the Maryland Institute College of Art Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence.

    Image: Portrait of Zachary Lieberman, artist, researcher, design technologist and educator who has just been awarded the Maryland Institute College of Art Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence

    Zachary Lieberman: Artist, Researcher, Design Technologist and Educator. Photo: The Systemis.

    BALTIMORE — Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) has named Zachary Lieberman, a New York-based artist, design technologist, and educator dedicated to exploring new modes of expression and play, the 2018 Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence at the Institute. During the two-day residency starting April 16, Zachary will have classroom discussions with students as well as do studio visits. The residency also includes a public lecture slated for Monday, April 16 at MICA. During the lecture, Zachary will discuss his work, which playfully uses technology to augment the body’s ability to communicate.

    There is high hope that Zachary’s residency will bring a better understanding of the relationship between art and technology. As a designer and technologist, Zachary Lieberman has focused his attention on how technology can be used to explore and extend what it means to be human. His interdisciplinary approach to art and computation will open up new horizons for art and technology students at MICA.

    Zachary brings a world of experience that will benefit students who will be part of his residency. One of his major achievements is the EyeWriter, a system that has been beneficial to ALS patients.   Working in collaboration with an international team of artists and programmers, he helped create EyeWriter, a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that allows paralyzed ALS patients to draw using only their eyes.

    In addition to finding new ways to combine design and technology to benefit humans, Zachary Lieberman is also a teacher at heart. In 2013, he co-founded the School for Poetic Computation (SPC), an artist-run hybrid school focused on exploring the intersection of code, design, hardware, and theory. As a mark of distinction, the school approaches writing code like creative writing. According to SPC’s website, this approach allows writers to focus “on the mechanics of programming, the demystification of tools and hacking the conventions of art-making with computation”.

    An artist, researcher, and educator, Zachary creates artwork through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He has been listed as one of Fast Company‘s Most Creative People. His projects have also won numerous awards including the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica, Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London. He has also been listed in Time’s Best Inventions of the Year.

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    With the MICA Residency, Zachary Lieberman gets the opportunity to continue to impart knowledge as well as fulfill the objective of the Wm. O. Steinmetz ’50 Designer-in-Residence program.  Established in 2009, the objective of the residency was to enhance MICA’s design culture by bringing outstanding practitioners to campus to share their valuable experiences and perspectives with students, faculty and the public. Named after the late MICA alumnus, faculty member and longtime trustee William Steinmetz (1927 – 2016), the residency was created through an endowment fund established by Steinmetz’s spouse, Betty Cooke ’46 (Art Education), as well as gifts from others in honor of him. Since inception, the Steinmetz Residency recipients have included Richard Niessen, Chip Kidd, Karin Fong, Cameron Sinclair and, most recently, Conflict Kitchen co-founders Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski.

    VIDEO: Zachary Lieberman and the workings of EyeWriter

    The Eyewriter from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

    Other Projects by Zachary Lieberman and his team of collaborators:

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