Zach Lieberman: Kinect Hacking, Face Tracking and More

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Partner:: Maker Faire
Location:: New York Hall of Science
Queens, NY
Event Date:: 09.17.11
Speaker:: Zach Lieberman
Tags:: diy; maker

Summary: In this talk, Zach Lieberman, an artist and professor at Parsons will talk about openframeworks, an open source c++ toolkit he helped co-found, and recent explorations using the Kinect 3d camera and high end face tracking code. Recent collaborations for live performance and music video work will be shown, with an emphasis on the tools / toolkits that make this kind of creative exploration possible. There will be live demos and nerdy insights.

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Zach Lieberman
Zachary Lieberman is an artist with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. His work uses technology in a playful way to break down the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible.Most recently, he helped create visuals for the facade of the new Ars Electronica Museum, wrote software for an augmented reality magic trick, and helped develop the eyewriter, an open source eye tracker to help a paralyzed graffiti artist draw again. In 2010 he was named one of 100 Creative People in Business by Fast Company Magazine. The eyewriter recently won Design of the Year (Interactive) from the London Design Museum and the Golden Nica (Interactive) from Ars Electronica. In addition to making artistic projects, Lieberman is co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding. thesystemis.com

Bio

Zach Lieberman

Zachary Lieberman is an artist with a simple goal: he wants you surprised. His work uses technology in a playful way to break down the fragile boundary between the visible and the invisible.Most recently, he helped create visuals for the facade of the new Ars Electronica Museum, wrote software for an augmented reality magic trick, and helped develop the eyewriter, an open source eye tracker to help a paralyzed graffiti artist draw again. In 2010 he was named one of 100 Creative People in Business by Fast Company Magazine. The eyewriter recently won Design of the Year (Interactive) from the London Design Museum and the Golden Nica (Interactive) from Ars Electronica. In addition to making artistic projects, Lieberman is co-creator of openFrameworks, an open source C++ toolkit for creative coding.
thesystemis.com