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Chroma

A sci-fi serial about race in digital space in which the user enacts monologues from the characters by moving the mouse.

Year 2001
Format
Website
Credits Text, Design, Programming and Score by Erik Loyer
Art Direction by Anita Lozinska
Additional Programming by Eric Campdoras
Recognition
Winner, 2002 CYBERLOUP / IPL Best Digital Creation Award, Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media
Exhibited at the American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
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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.

Video Documentation

The main menu and all seven of the project's completed chapters are presented below.









Chroma’s main characters have discovered an Edenic “natural cyberspace” accessible purely through the mind.
The main character, Duck at the Door, is haunted by a world which constantly misinterprets her.
In this chapter, the main characters are represented as a single living organism undergoing constant transformation.
Here, the user directs a stream of floating squares to successive points on the horizon to activate various sections of a character’s monologue.