Ernesto Klar is a media and sound artist based in New York City. Klar’s works have been presented at Eyebeam, Chelsea Art Museum, BAP Lab Festival in New York City, the ICA in Boston, FILE Festival in Sao Paulo, OI Futuro in Rio de Janeiro, and the CCCB in Barcelona, among others. His awards include grants, fellowships, and commissions from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Klar holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School For Design, and a BM in Composition from Berklee College of Music. He is currently a faculty member at Parsons The New School For Design in New York City.
“Microspazi” is an audiovisual performance piece that uses a custom-software and a high-resolution microscopy digital camera to reveal, amplify, and alter imperceptible topologies of the artwork’s given site
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 were recently nominated for Wired magazine’s artist of the year award and have toured and exhibited their works widely, much to the delight of their audiences.
Lieberman has held artist residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, and most recently at Dance Theatre Workshop, where he investigated how technology might be used to aid the choreographic process.
He is currently working on a concert-performance, “Drawn,” in which live painted forms appear to come to life, rising off the page and reacting to the world around them. Lieberman is also developing a suite of software for disabled students that transforms their movement into an audio-visual response as a means for performance and self-expression.