Erik Loyer is a Southern California-based multimedia artist working with gesture and juxtaposition, whether between syllables in time, images in space, or moments in a narrative. He creates digital performance spaces that invite individuals to engage with all of these elements simultaneously, combining each person’s own sense of timing, composition, and narrative with the inherent dynamics of the work. Through these interactions, artist and audience co-create audiovisual literacies in real time, coaxing expressive languages of text, image, and sound into being, exploring them in playful and dramatic ways, and then allowing them to dissolve. Loyer’s practice often includes the design and development of original creative tools that he, his collaborators, and the general public can use to further explore these dynamics.