link: https://vimeo.com/135073747 

In Zach Lieberman’s Eyeo Talk 2015, he talks a lot about “lines” which can be understood as a poet or codes.  He starts with talking about what lines mean to his father, and how does this world of papers and drawings interact on the computer and how to take artist’s working with lines and drawing and take their ideas or what they means in digitally and on the computer.to him, drawing is a set of angle changes, rather than a set of points of connecting dots. Every line is actually curves changing in angle, and lines can be anything. This makes me start to think about the angles and the relationship. He says that he is always at the intersection with drawing and codes, because computer can do many thing that people can’t do on paper.

One of the interesting small project, or a tool, he mentioned at the end is about using codes to make a drawing based on their picture. He always think about what line means. To him, he always thinks about geo lines, such as code, but to his father, lines are what people says, such as poets. This tool is a combination of what lines mean to him and his father. He goes to people’s talk, writes down what they said, and uses C++ to write a code which portraits their face based on their picture only through lines. He says what people said while showing the lines of their pictures, which means he shows some lines and says some lines.

1. A white background with various bubbles floating from left to right of the screen, ranging in colors. There will sometimes be a little animated cartoon character or animal inside a bubble as it floats by.
2. A person laying in a field at the bottom of the screen, staring up to the night sky filled with stars. Small shooting stars will fly by as well as random constellation outlines of images.
3. A view from Central Park with the street seen between the trees. There could be cars passing by there with pedestrians. More toward the foreground could be birds, squirrels, and other park related instances.
4. Black and white haunted house scenery. There could be random red eyes flickering in the windows, bats flying by the moon, floating ghosts, and various little creepy details.

1.an alien figure is sucked up into an UFO. It travels from an apartment to the rooftop then to the UFO, then the UFO travels out of earth into space.

2. a person travels on a small boat on ocean waves. As he goes to different places, different sea creatures appear.

3. create a mountain landscape and display it in a first person perspective so it looks like viewers are flying above the earth and the earth is rotating.

This generative landscape shows the journey of someone driving a car recklessly(possibly DUI). This is shown through the path that the car takes, whether they are swerving, and randomly speeding up and slowing down.They move through different places, such as rural and urban areas, that each have their own risk of a car accident(more likely to hit people and/or other cars in the city). But once the car does get into a crash, the landscape stops “moving.”

This generative landscape shows the life cycle of a couple of trees, from the seeds being planted to them growing, to eventually burned in a forest fire, and then the cycle repeats. The trees will also experience weather, such as rain, snow, and wind, that will affect how fast they grow.

The generative landscape is based on the endless scrolling of Facebook. The landscape will show the different types of posts seen on Facebook and as the posts generate, each post will have different types of likes/reactions. As time passes, the posts will be more biased to a certain type of reaction, such as love or anger. As the posts become more weighted on one side, the color of the post will be reflective of the reaction it generates. For example, a post that has a lot of anger reactions will be red/orange, while a post that has a lot of love reactions will be more pink. Randomly, there will also be popup notifications from other apps that will appear on the screen.

Lauren Mccarthy a artist and programmer. She focuses on the different human interactions and how the world around us affects our social relationships. In her talk at the 2017 Gray Area Festival she introduces a project that she and others worked on. Basically it is a watch that is connected to an app which allows you to determine and notice how you feel around others around you. The app will tell you if you are feeling stress, sad, happy or any other emotions around the people you see everyday. If the person makes you unhappy then you can take actions into account to delete the person. This project is to help people see and know their cause of emotions so that they can improve their mental health and have a positive life style. The name of the product is pplkpr. 

Here are some images of the project

• My first idea of the project comes from the photo my mom took during the summer. The photo shows how beautiful the evening sky is. So I want to create a project that randomly generate all kinds of evening sky with sunset and clouds. The central tint will be warm colors like red. And at the bottom will be random buildings all in black.
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• My second idea comes from Chinese breakfast. I love the steamed food i used to have for breakfast, and I think it will be really cool to have a project that randomly show different kinds of food. I will have a huge steam pot as background, and let it displays more and more food as time pass. There will also be smoke on the top to show it is steamed and hot. I think I will write a class called food, and have different types of steam food in that class. 
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• My third idea comes from my mom’s garden. She plants all kinds of flowers, and it is always beautiful in her garden. So I would love to make a project that generates random flowers on the screen. I think I will create a flower class that contains all kinds of flower, and every time I run the project, different kinds of flowers will be displayed. The background will be green to show it is a garden. 
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Zach Lieberman

He is an American artist and computer programmer. His work focuses on computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and computer vision.

The Eyewriter

http://www.eyewriter.org/

This is Zach Lieberman’s work the Eyewriter. It is an opensource hardware and software toolkit. This design helps people to draw things by only using their eyes. His team is working together to design a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that allows ALS patient to draw using their eyes. Their long-term goal is to build a professional and social network of software developers, hardware hackers, urban projection artists and ALS patients from around the world who are using local materials and open source research to connect and make eye art creatively.

EYEO 2017 – Zach Lieberman

Zach Lieberman is an artist and computer programmer who wants his work to fully human and break down the boundary between the visible and invisible. Lieberman is very interested in drawing, especially the feeling of drawing on a computer. Therefore, he decided to explore the intersection of drawing and code. He’s goal is to develop new tools that allows people to utilize their artistic abilities digitally because the current tools available are limiting.

While exploring art and drawings, Lieberman focused on changing the direction and angle of lines in order to create patterns. He observed the pattern that often shows up on airplane walls, and each of the line segments in the pattern seems to be pointing at something/somewhere. And that led to the creation of his project “play the world”.

Zach Lieberman thinks of radio as a mechanism for interacting with the world. He is interested in the visual language behind radio and radio devices. Play the world is essentially an instrument. When users are listening to radio streams live, they can identify musical notes that sounds like notes played with musical instruments. Lieberman programmed an interface that allows you to play those notes and used databases to create a software that listen to radio streams and find notes. It would isolate a specific moment that sounds like a musical note. He then integrated the idea into maps and the world cup, etc. That allowed user to play sounds or broadcasts from all over the world on a single keyboard.