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Zach Lieberman is a teacher, fan of poetry, and a new media programmer from New York. He focuses on computer technology and enjoys surprising his audience through his creativity. Lieberman went to Parsons School or Design and Hunter College where he received his BA in Fine Arts. He teaches at Parsons, and is a founder of the school for poetic computation. Within his work and teaching he allows his students and audience to work and participate with the projects and installations he presents. Besides computing and education, he focuses on higher education. Lieberman, leans on free education and computer technology for “creative coding”.

The artist I choose to listen to was Josh Begley. Josh Begley is an american visual artist whos main goal is analyzing the oppression of different groups across the world and how we can see this oppression using visual programming. One early example is a program that shows the number of prisons in america through a randomly generated algorithm, the program uses birds eye images just to show how inhumane the US prison system is by showing how lifeless the structures are. Begley also discusses how the new age of mobile apps and social media has made global issues clear as day and very easy to communicate. He advocates for the people of a nation knowing the dirty secrets of country, he believes with new tech we cannot live in the dark anymore.

Zach Lieberman is a new media artist that playfully surprises people through creative and interactive installations that question what is visible and not visible. He attended Hunters College and Parsons School of Design. He strives to break the boundaries of communications through the use of computer technology. Lieberman is actively reinforcing the future of computing and education, to make it a free, proactive and open form of expression. He is also one of the co-founders of Open Framework which is an open source library of a collective C++ “toolkit designed to assist the creative process by providing a simple and intuitive framework for experimentation.” Lastly, he advocates the importance of failure in computing and art, as well as experimentation and exploration.

Zach Lieberman is a New York born artist, programmer, and teacher. He has a BA in Fine Arts from Hunter College and an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. A greater parts of his works are interactive installations, allowing his audience to be a part of his art. Lieberman , a big poetry fan, he is one of the founders of the school for poetic computation. An effort to teach the emphasis of code use for creative purposes. Lieberman’s own work evidently merges computation with creativity. As an artist, his goal is to always surprise you.

Josh starts off by citing his inspiration from W.E.B DuBois, how his data visualization treated the “facts he obtained with the delicacy of an artist,” and how the data DuBois visualized was “remarkably creative in both form and content.” He talks about one of his first projects, which detailed the race questions of every U.S. census, and showed how racial catigories changed over time. He talks about a project he worked on that visualized prisons across America, by cycling through data points in Google Maps datapoints. This allowed him to effectively visualize incarceration in America, rather than an overhead map that is oversaturated with prisons, which made it difficult to truly grasp the magnitude of the situation. He also has made an app that alerts you when someone overseas is hit by a U.S. drone strike. There was a lot of controversy about this, and Apple kept rejecting it. I think it’s important to have access to this so we aren’t so ignorant when it comes to foreign affairs, to have a little more of a glimpse into the lives of people in the Middle East that our country affects so greatly.

I really found Rachel Binx’s work interesting. She’s always been a traveler, this is reflected in her work. Particularly her company Meshu, which makes jewelry out of personalized points from a map; inspired by how she used to record the longitude and latitude of everywhere she went. Her other company, Gifpop, seems really amazing too. She takes gifs and makes them into lenticular prints, the images move depending on what direction you look at them from.

Josh Begley is an intellect.  he takes a lot of knowledge from Toni Morrison, using her words of wisdom as a way form him to gain knowledge. when Morrison was asked “Why Literature?” she answered ” you know the formula, the data, which becomes knowledge, but the step after that is wisdom. neither one of the first three is efficient. literature has always been the place to go because its indeterminate, provocative, and it can be beautiful.” begley calls himself a data artist and the best intellects work at crafts without answers, and make multiple questions about it. he talks about W.E.B Dubois and his use of data visualization. talked about prison locations in NYU. most pics arent seen by human eye, they are taken by machines. he then goes on to talk about the drones problem.

My original idea was too difficult for me to handle with my current knowledge. So I did 2 more simple ones. The left one shows time by having three circles expand outwards until they hit the squares. The thickest being hours and thinnest being seconds. The right one is shows time by rectangles expanding upwards until they reset.