Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 8: Tooling Era (2000s)
2002
Re:MARK by Golan Levin & Zach Lieberman

A commission of the Ars Electronica Museum of the Future, Re:MARK, by Tmema (Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman) with production support from the Ars Electronica Futurelab, was an interactive installation that visualized speech as whimsical animated text and shapes. Utilizing voice analysis, motion sensing and real-time animation, the installation cast the spoken words and sounds of participants as shadows, creating a playful, reactive and interactive environment. The exhibition created a shadow world of cartoon language that became a stage for participants. This immersive and participatory experience showcased the lighter side of software art and its ability to amaze.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.
Sources
People
Movements
Immersive Art, Interactive Art, Participatory Art, software art
Filed under
- Ideas
- audience participation, Immersive Art, Installation Art, Interactive Art, interactivity, language, Participatory Art, speech
- Technologies
- computer vision, motion sensing, real-time animation, software art, voice analysis
- People
- Golan Levin, Zach Lieberman
- Works
- Re:MARK
- Organisations
- Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Center, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Tmema
Echoes across time
- 1962 · The Open Work by Umberto Eco
- 1974 · Videoplace by Myron Krueger
- 2021 · Unstable Presence by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at SFMOMA
Le Random editorials
- The Zach Lieberman Commission, Peter Bauman, August 30, 2023
- Golan Levin on the Potentiality of Blobs, Peter Bauman, January 10, 2024
- Zach Lieberman on the Resonance of Generative Art, Peter Bauman, August 2, 2023
- Memo Akten on Rituals as Algorithms, Peter Bauman, July 13, 2026
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 8—Tooling Era (2000s) with Christiane Paul, Casey Reas, Christa Sommerer & Golan Levin — listen with transcript on Le Random (15 May 2024, 64 min). Featuring Golan Levin. Chapter 8’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- One Year of Le Random — listen with transcript on Le Random (22 Mar 2024, 59 min). Transcript mentions Golan Levin. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz — listen with transcript on Le Random (06 Jul 2023, 46 min). Transcript mentions Zach Lieberman. Apple Podcasts · Spotify