Portrait of Erik Loyer

Erik Loyer is a Los Angeles area artist exploring how interactive media change the way we share stories and experiences. Through games, apps, comics, websites, and video, he has used digital media to interweave present and past, music and poetry, performance and archive, and is currently making a series of short films which are performed live in virtual reality. Loyer founded the interactive media studio Opertoon in 2008, releasing three narrative-driven works, while also developing a pair of creative tools for exploring digital temporality used in classrooms, workshops, and commercial releases. He has created over a dozen interactive documentaries in collaboration with leading scholars, artists, and organizations, including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute. Loyer was creator of one the first websites to be collected by a major American art museum, and 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. His work has been exhibited across the United States and Europe.