Zach Lieberman: 10 Years of Daily Sketches

London
15 January — 2 February
2026

London · 15 January — 2 February 2026

Nguyen Wahed

Zach Lieberman
10 Years of Daily Sketches

A Decade of Daily Experiments

A landmark practice in generative art

Nguyen Wahed presents 10 Years of Daily Sketches, a survey of Zach Lieberman's remarkable decade-long commitment to creating and publishing a digital experiment every day. What began as a small daily practice gradually evolved into one of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary generative art.

Over the course of ten years, Lieberman has used code not simply as a technical tool but as a creative language. Each sketch explores the expressive potential of computation — transforming simple rules and algorithms into fluid forms, shifting colors, and evolving visual systems.

The Daily Sketch Practice

A landmark practice in generative art

For Lieberman, daily sketching functions much like writing in a diary. Each day's experiment builds upon the previous one, remixing fragments of code and exploring subtle variations in movement, form, and interaction.

Rather than pursuing technical spectacle, the works reveal a patient process of observation and discovery. Curves bend and flow through space, simple rules generate organic systems, and computational logic begins to resemble natural phenomena.

Together, these sketches form a visual record of experimentation — a decade of trial, failure, refinement, and unexpected beauty.

Code as a Creative Medium

Beyond technology, toward expression

This exhibition resists the common perception of computational art as technological spectacle. Instead, Lieberman's work invites viewers to consider code as a genuine artistic medium — capable of subtlety, emotion, and poetic expression.

Through these sketches, computation becomes a way of thinking visually. The works demonstrate that algorithms are not merely instructions for machines but tools for exploring perception, rhythm, and transformation.

In Lieberman's practice, code is not about what machines can do — it is about what artists can imagine.

Exhibition Works

A curated selection of generative sketches from Zach Lieberman's ongoing daily practice.

Artist Statement

As a creator, there are always voices telling you it's not good enough. My job is to silence those voices and follow the quiet intuition that led me to create in the first place.

Lieberman describes his practice as an ongoing attempt to protect the fragile intuition that drives creative work. Each daily sketch becomes an act of curiosity — an opportunity to explore new visual ideas without the pressure of perfection.

In doing so, the project transforms social media from a space of performance into a studio journal, revealing the authentic process of artistic discovery.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Zach Lieberman (b. 1977) is an artist, researcher, and educator whose practice spans computer graphics, animation, interactive design, and creative coding.

He is widely recognized as the co-creator of openFrameworks, an open-source toolkit that has become foundational infrastructure for artists working with code around the world. His work consistently explores the relationship between humans and machines, approaching technology not as an end in itself but as a medium for lyrical expression.

Lieberman is also the co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and currently leads the Future Sketches research group at the MIT Media Lab.

His work has been exhibited internationally and has received major recognition including the Golden Nica from Ars Electronica.