Erik Loyer is a Southern California-based multimedia artist creating virtual landscapes that juxtapose myth and reality, data and embodiment, notation and performance. Working with scans and recordings of real places and objects combined with 3D models and video, he composes worlds designed for live interaction, often with a cinematic perspective. Loyer draws on both popular science fiction and the “city symphony” genre of experimental film to construct active spaces which respond to timed hand gestures, the striking of virtual drums, and other musical input, turning synthetic landscapes into digital instruments. Through this process of recomposition, Loyer juxtaposes virtual imprints of real places with our ideas about those places, letting them sit together in striking, sometimes challenging conversations. Loyer’s work has been exhibited in the Americas and Europe, and he has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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