The Lair of the Marrow Monkey |
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Text, Design, Programming and Score by Erik Loyer March 1998 Launch Project |
Winner, 1998 New Media Invision Silver Award, Best Personal Web Site Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA Honorable Mention, 1999 Prix Ars Electronica |
The Lair of the Marrow Monkey, one of the first websites to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, is an experiment in using a dynamic, abstract interface to communicate memory, emotion and narrative.
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1. “Mnemonic membrane” allows users to play with a dynamic surface which is sensitive to words and contains memories. |
2. In this chapter, the user enacts the story by touching typographic elements which have dynamic behaviours that express the meaning of the text. | |
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3. Here, each word of the monologue explodes across the screen with realistic physics, while the individual letters constantly maintain their left-to right ordering. |
4. Each disc represents a chapter of the work; with the mouse the user can rotate a disc to the front and then grab it with the triangular pincers. |
