Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.
History
Loyer began his work at
The Voyager Company
The Voyager Company was a pioneer in CD-ROM production in the 1980s and early 1990s. In partnership with Janus Films, the company published The Criterion Collection, a pioneering home video collection of classic and important contemporary films on ...
, and has done professional interface design work for a number of firms and startups. He graduated with a degree in Cinema and Television from the
University of Southern California
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Projects
He won a 1998 New Media Invision Silver Award for his project ''The Lair of the Marrow Monkey'', which is part of the permanent collection of the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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.
In 1999, he won a Rockefeller Media Fellowship for his ongoing interactive narrative ''Chroma'' which has been showcased internationally, as well as on the web.
In 2009 Loyer turned his attention to his
startup company
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Opertoon specializing in the creation of "stories you can play" on mobile devices such as the
iPad
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. Loyer's first release through Opertoon was Ruben & Lullaby, an
Indiecade
IndieCade is an international juried festival of independent games. IndieCade is known as "the video game industry's Sundance."Fritz, Ben"IndieCade, the video game industry's Sundance" Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2009, accessed July 21, 2011. ...
Official Selection valued by
MSNBC
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as a "game that plays more like an interactive graphic novel."
USA Today
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described Loyer's second Opertoon release and top-charting Apple iTunes Store app, "Strange Rain", as "part poetry, part artwork, part game, part interactive music experiment and part relaxation tool."
See also
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Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Notes
External links
The Lair of the Marrow Monkey Biography
American digital artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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