David Scott Leibowitz brings over forty years of fascination with photography, video art, and experimental filmmaking to his current position as a pioneer in the developing medium of Digital Art. Mr. Leibowitz is part of a new generation of artists who are redefining the boundaries of both fine arts and popular culture. Having come of age during the information revolution, his work merges an appreciation for the plastic arts, (film, video and photography) with an affinity for advanced computer technology.

Mr. Leibowitz completed his formal education in 1976 with a bachelor of Fine Arts in Cinema from the University of Bridgeport. Studies included film, video, photography, and art, with experimental filmmaker Warren Bass, and Video artist Shalom Gorewitz. During the late seventies, he completed his formative period working for Director/Cinematographer Tibor Hirsch.

His early interests involved some kind of alteration of the traditional photographic image, which lead to his manipulation of Polaroid SX-70 film in 1977. He exhibited this medium, which he calls 'Photo-Impressionism', in an annual Soho exhibit for sixteen years. His work has been exhibited in a number of museum shows in New Jersey, and has been included in the corporate collections of IBM, Philip Morris, Polaroid, Canon USA, Microsoft, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Leibowitzs' experience with video art during and after university, brought him hands-on knowledge of video systems, and special effects. In 1980, he established a company to provide playback, and assorted video analysis to film production companies, and advertising agencies on the sets of TV commercials. In the summer of 1996, he was the first on the East coast to use computers for Video assist. This brought accurate slow-motion, post effects pre-visualization, and instant editorial capabilities to the set, a valuable production tool we all now take for granted. He is now using QTAKE HD technology, state-of –the-art multi-camera recording, compositing, editorial and 3D video assist software, all run on a Mac.

While maintaining his company, for over 30 years Leibowitz has vigorously pursued his personal interest in creating a new visual language through the use of photography, videography, 3D renderings and collage assembled on the Macintosh platform.

In 1991, he was approached by Jim Ross and Randy Pardy of Detroit Digital Studios to bring his unique skill and vision to a Shima Seiki Image Graphics Workstation. The resulting work has produced images of extraordinary beauty and delicacy. In the next few years, this work was been published in a feature article in Confetti magazine, in Polaroid's Test magazine, twice in Computer Artist magazine, in the Jeremy Gardiner book, Digital Photo-Illustration and on the Quantum Access CD-Rom, The Virtual Gallery. His work with the application Painter was published in a few of the Fractal Design Painter books. In 1995 he turned his attention to the moving image, hand painting video a frame at a time in the computer and incorporated 3D rendering into his art.

At the turn of the century, he designed the searchable web site, Leibo.net as a living, ever changing portal into his world. It extensively documents this artist's evolution of imagery into the digital age, and is updated constantly with new work. In 2008, he began making art on a new computing platform, Apple's iPhone and iPad and using dozens of apps, is now creating art as new as the latest Photo/Art app release.

Leibowitz’s involvement with mobile digital art goes way beyond creating art using the latest tools. In June of 2009, he co-developed an iPhone app, “iCreated”, with developer Andrew Stone, which is dedicated to artwork made on these iDevices and to creating a visual correlation between art and creative apps. This put Leibowitz in touch with many of the artists using iPhones, app developers and the many places on the web where these arty types congregate. Making art on the iPhone or iPad and joining dedicated groups on Flickr, a photo-sharing social network, put him in the middle of an incredibly supportive and proactive international community and curating the iCreated gallery of submissions keeps him aware of who is out there making great mobile art.

The past few years, Mr. Leibowitz has participated in exhibitions of Mobile Digital Art in New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Austin Texas, Maine, Connecticut, the UK, Italy, Herzegovina and New Zealand.

In July of 2009 he began writing a book about art created on iPhones and iPads and now, this finished book, “Mobile Digital Art” features the work of 70 international artists and as of April 2013, is available everywhere.

In the Spring of 2010, Leibowitz and six others co-founded The International Association of Mobile Digital Artists, or iAMDA, an organization dedicated to artists and their art created in this new medium. This organization has held two conferences at NYU's ITP facility, bringing worldwide cyber-friendships into the real world.

With a multitude of images created in various mediums, the latest tools and techniques and a refined artistic sensibility, Mr. Leibowitz, camera still in hand, continues his pursuit of new methods to match new visions. 

Work can be viewed also at www.wmgallery.com.