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Zachary LIEBERMAN +Theodore WATSON

  • 2008
  • Installation
  • Commissioned by YCAM
  • World Premiere
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In this installation, various "magic tricks" can be performed using a deck of cards as interface.

Set up in the exhibition space is a table on which visitors arrange playing cards, and a screen onto which the scenery on the table is projected. Nothing happens as long as the cards are facing down, but as soon as a card is turned up, the tabletop on the screen becomes a stage on which clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades come off and start flying around freely, accompanied by music. Happening here one after another as if perfectly normal are a variety of things that can never occur in reality. Through this work utilizing image-recognition augmented reality technologies, visitors can enjoy playing tricks like magicians.

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Zachary LIEBERMAN

Media Artist / Programmer

Zachary Lieberman's work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response. Working with collaborator Golan Levin, he created a series of installations - "Remark" and "Hidden Worlds" - which presented different interpretations of what the voice might look like if we could see our own speech. These were followed with "Messa Di Voce," a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two abstract vocalists were radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. The collaborators have toured and exhibited their works widely, much to the delight of their audiences. Lieberman's installation / performance "Drawn", in which live painted forms appear to come to life, rising off the page and reacting to the world around them, recently won awards in the Ars Electronica and CYNETart competitions. Most recently, he presented "Opensourcery," collaboration with Spanish magician Mago Julian, in which open source software is combined with traditional close-magic to create a completely new realm of tricks.

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Theodore WATSON

Artist / Designer

Theodore Watson is an artist, designer and experimenter whose work is born out of the curiosity and excitement of designing experiences that come alive and invite people to play. Watson's work ranges from creating new tools for artistic expression, experimental musical systems, to immersive, interactive environments with full-body interaction. His recent work includes the Graffiti Research Lab's "Laser Tag", laser graffiti system, and Funky Forest, an immersive interactive ecosystem for young children. Watson works together with Zachary Lieberman on openFrameworks, an open source library for writing creative code in C++. Watson's work has been shown at MoMA, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, Sundance Film Festival, Res Fest, REMF, Cinekid, Montevideo, OFFF, SHIFT, ICHIM, The Creators Series, Deitch Projects, Eyebeam, Pixel Gallery, Museum N8 Amsterdam.

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Zachary LIEBERMAN 's works

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Theodore WATSON's works

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Works of 2008

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