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Chroma

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Text, Design, Programming and Score by Erik Loyer, Art Direction by Anita Lozinska, Additional Programming by Eric Campdoras
February 2001

Launch Project
Winner, 2002 CYBERLOUP / IPL Best Digital Creation Award, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Made possible in part by a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship

Chroma is an award-winning interactive serial in which users interact with fluid, real-time graphics representing the thoughts and feelings of characters exploring issues of race and identity in digital space.

Chroma Screenshot 1

1. Chroma’s main characters have discovered an Edenic “natural cyberspace” accessible purely through the mind.

Chroma Screenshot 2

2. The main character, Duck at the Door, is haunted by a world which constantly misinterprets her.

Chroma Screenshot 3

3. In this chapter, the main characters are represented as a single living organism undergoing constant transformation.

Chroma Screenshot 4

4. Here, the user directs a stream of floating squares to successive points on the horizon to activate various sections of a character’s monologue.