Education
He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.
He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sound Art (Video & Audio) for 1987-1988. He also works in film, having had a show at Museum of Modern Art, and is currently working on advanced programming in Digital Video Disc creation. Lerman"s work is often site-specific.
Pieces include Travelon Gamelon, for amplified bicycles.
A Seasonal Mapping of the Sonoran Desert, which includes cactus needles plucked by rainfall. And the collaboration (with Mona Higuchi) Threading History, for which he recorded prison camp barbed wire.
In the 80s he lived in Boston and taught at the Museum School and the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.