Introducing “Generous Machine”

Announcements,
1/19/08

“These machines… They must be generous with our needs. They must be forgiving with our errors. They must be eloquent of ourselves.”

—Grid Farmer Perry, in Chapter Seven of Chroma

Today marks the debut of “Generous Machine,” a freshly minted moniker for this site, and a new domain (generousmachine.com) that points to it. (erikloyer.com will continue to work as well.) I’ve been kicking around the idea of blogging under a title for a few months now, and the right one finally came along over the holidays. For me, this title instinctively evokes my favorite interactive works, and so represents both the best experiences of the past as well as my aspirations for the future. I’ll be returning to developing original content this year—and the “generous machine” will be one standard to be aimed for.

Cheers!

 

“Public Secrets” at Transmediale; “Beyond the Book” conference at Davis

Announcements, Digital Humanities, Events,
1/7/08

A few tidbits of news to share with you today:

Public Secrets, the Webby-honored interactive documentary I designed with Sharon Daniel, will be exhibited at the Transmediale festival for art and digital culture in Berlin in late January/early February.

In addition, the Davis Humanities Institute is hosting a one-day conference on February 1 entitled “Beyond the Book: Humanities Scholarship in the Digital Age” which will feature a number of Vectors personnel and alumni, including Tara McPherson, David Theo Goldberg, Sharon Daniel, Minoo Moallem, Caren Kaplan, Jenny Terry and myself, among other distinguished speakers. The day includes a keynote panel, lunchtime roundtable, and afternoon demonstration sessions. For more information on the conference, download the pdf.

Be well.

 

Upcoming Events: ‘Designing for Convergence’ Panel and Flash Platform Workshop

Announcements, Events, Flash, Flex, Interactive Design,
11/16/07

Wanted to bring a few upcoming events to your attention. First up: on this coming Monday, November 19 at 10:00 am PST, I’ll be joining Dmitri Siegel, designer, writer and art director for Urban Outfitters, and Peter Lunenfeld, media theorist and professor at Art Center College of Design, as part of a panel on ‘Designing for Convergence,’ sponsored by Adobe and the new interdivisional program in Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. This panel will be simulcast as an interactive online forum via Adobe Connect and you are welcome to join us! If you would like to attend, you will need to register first.

Two weeks later, on Monday, December 3 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm PST, I’ll be teaching a Flash Platform workshop focusing on programming in ActionScript 3.0 and MXML and at the basics of working in Adobe Flash and Flex (and how you decide when to use either one). This workshop will also be simulcast via Adobe Connect; I don’t have the registration link as yet but will post it when it becomes available. UPDATE: The Flash Platform workshop has been cancelled until further notice.

You can get more details about both events.

Also, I’d like to thank Scott Fisher for inviting me to speak at the USC Interactive Media Division’s weekly forum last night. ‘Seeking Eloquence in Interactive Space’ was the topic I tackled, and we ended up having some good discussion afterwards; got to chat with a few former students of mine as well. A pleasure.

 

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