“I feel strongly that we should be making work that speaks for itself.”
— Zach Lieberman, interview by Peter Bauman, Le Random, August 2, 2023
The things I care about are so immediate. I care about images. I care about ambiguity. I care about 3D that looks like 2D or 2D that looks like 3D. I care about your brain having to work a little bit harder. I care about texture and color. To me, those are about the grammar of vision and I'm not trying to make really conceptual work per se.
— Zach Lieberman, interview by Peter Bauman, Le Random, August 2, 2023
“I feel strongly that we should be making work that speaks for itself. So it's important to not be in service of technology.”
— Zach Lieberman, interview by Peter Bauman, Le Random, August 2, 2023He has spent twenty years building openFrameworks so others could code creatively, and another decade teaching that practice at MIT. When Bright Moments brought him to Venice in 2022, he minted a hundred sunsets live — code run once, in place, never repeated.
I feel strongly that we should be making work that speaks for itself. So it's important to not be in service of technology.
Le Random, interview by Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023But I don't want you to look at any of my pieces and say, 'Okay, that's a great application of Delaunay triangulation.' Or 'That's an amazing shader code.' My least favorite thing is somebody asking me: 'How was it made?' Imagine going to an exhibition and asking a painter something like, 'How did you hang this? How did you stretch the canvas?' To me, that's f––g boring.
Le Random, interview by Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023The things I care about are so immediate. I care about images. I care about ambiguity. I care about 3D that looks like 2D or 2D that looks like 3D. I care about your brain having to work a little bit harder. I care about texture and color. To me, those are about the grammar of vision.
Le Random, interview by Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023I always say to students, 'The best work is connecting what you care about now with what makes you who you are.' That always leads to the most exciting outcomes.
Le Random, interview by Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023Every figure above comes from Alfred’s own dataset — sales, volume and owners read off the chain, floors from the marketplaces. On a wallet he goes one step further, to the number that gets buried under a decade of transfers: what you actually paid.
In the wallets we look at, nearly half of what people hold has no purchase price to look up. It arrived as a mint, a swap or a transfer.
Alfred follows each one back through the chain.
Both figures come from one reading: 16 wallets, 3,548 items, Sep 2026.
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