In the Air


In the Air is a performance in which drawings on the pages of a book being flipped through come to life. The performance is designed to start small and ends with a dense universe of drawn forms, all coming off the page and floating above and around the book. The performance employs custom created software. The drawings will be created in collaboration with media artist, Taeyoon Choi. The project will match his expressive drawing style with computational techniques for animation and composition that lead to completely probable, impossible forms of drawing. In the Air is a mixture of magic, visual illusion, and gestural expression. The goal is surprise and wonder.

Zachary Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. 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.