--- title: Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman... description: An interview with artist and educator Zach Lieberman, co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and contributor to openFrameworks, who teaches at MIT... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/source-material-artist-and-educator-zach-lieberman-likes-to-break-things-kziwmjlno twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things | daily.dev og:description: An interview with artist and educator Zach Lieberman, co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and contributor to openFrameworks, who teaches at MIT... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/source-material-artist-and-educator-zach-lieberman-likes-to-break-things-kziwmjlno og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KzIWmjLnO.png og:image:alt: Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Source material: Artist and educator Zach Lieberman likes to break things **[Figma](https://daily.dev/sources/figma)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An interview with artist and educator Zach Lieberman, co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and contributor to openFrameworks, who teaches at MIT Media Lab. He discusses his path from fine art to creative coding, his admiration for early computer art pioneers Lillian Schwartz and Myron Krueger, his frustration with AI-generated visuals that stop at surface output, and his creative habits like breaking code, revisiting old projects, and drawing inspiration from Corita Kent's writings on making art. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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