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One
of the first people to become interested in the impact
of information technologies on architecture, in 1968 Lifton
was involved in the creation of the international Computer
Arts Society, and exhibited in the landmark Cybernetic
Serendipity exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary
Arts in London (later shown in Washington DC and San Francisco).
The following year he was a founder of the London New
Arts Lab and the Institute for Research in Art and Technology,
a base for experimental performance and mixed media work,
where he set up the first free computer facility specifically
for artists.
Lifton's
computer interactive environments were exhibited throughout
the UK and Europe during this period, and used in electronic
music performance. His work Green Music,
in which music is generated algorithmically in real-time
from the natural electricity in plants, was shown at the
Edinburgh Festival in 1975, Muzicki Biennale Zagreb in
1977, and, installed in the conservatory in Golden Gate
Park, San Francisco, (which appears in the 1976 film,
The
Secret Life of Plants).
From
1974 to 1977 he taught graduate students at the Royal
College of Art in London, in both the departments of Environmental
Media and Design Research. He moved to Telluride, Colorado
in 1977 where he currently lives and works. He is a founder
of the Telluride
Institute and is currently developing the Center
for the Future in Slavonice, Czech Republic.
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