




“Every time I do art, I feel like I’m not serving utility in a direct way,” he said. “Every time I do science, I miss the spark of the creative impulse. But I’ve come to realise it’s the same. In science or art, it’s about introducing people to new truths.”
On the show, Lieberman says the goal is to find things that are amazing yet out of our perception, and bring them into a range that we can comprehend. “We’ve evolved techniques for taste and sight and sound, but we have just enough to hunt prey and avoid predators,” he said. “But when you tell someone that the rainbow actually goes farther than what you can see, they have a tough time dealing with that. This show is about using science and technology to experience deeper things, to find the deeper sources of awe.”
Lieberman’s work ranges from the cutely clever to the absurdly complex, such as “Absolut Quartet”—a giant “musical experience” he created with Dan Paluska, a fellow MIT roboticist—in which a user entered a short theme into a web page, and the machine, on display in a New York gallery this spring, generated a unique musical piece with three instruments.
“He’s able to talk about science as something that’s very hip, and he’s a great person to communicate that to a whole new generation,” said Cynthia Breazeal, his PhD adviser in the robotic life group, where Lieberman is focusing on applications of technology in artistic expression.
Lieberman is certainly having fun using visual technology to delve into heavy scientific riddles, such as...


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