As an extension of his web digital commission Atlas of Blobs (2022) at M+, artist Zachary Lieberman selects music by Time Wharp to pair with his four ‘blobs’ for the Grand Stair screening. Brought to life through computer programmes, these captivating blobs dance, pulsate, and metamorphose into forms of idiosyncrasy. Since 2016, Lieberman has been dedicated to daily sketches of computer graphics, exploring both the precision and randomness in code. Lieberman is celebrated for hand-coded computer graphics, performance, and installations that explore the interplay between the human mind, body, and code. For further insight into Lieberman’s practice and the M+ commission Atlas of Blobs, delve into this interview and this written response.

Zachary Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator. He has a simple goal: to surprise us. His performances and installations take human gestures as input and amplify them in different ways. Lieberman makes drawings come to life, imagines what a voice might look like if we could see it, and transforms people's silhouettes into music.

He has been listed as one of Fast Company's Most Creative People. His projects have won the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica and Interactive Design of the Year from Design Museum London, and have been listed in Time Magazine's Best Inventions of the Year. Lieberman creates artworks through writing software and is a co-creator of openFrameworks—an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. He co-founded the School for Poetic Computation, a school examining the lyrical possibilities of code, where he also teaches. He is a professor at the MIT’s Media Lab, where he runs the Future Sketches group.