Scalar Workshop with Eric Loyer
Friday, October 26, 2012
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
FHI Garage – C105, Bay 4, Smith Warehouse
This workshop is open to students in the PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge and the MFA in Experimental Documentary Arts. Space is limited, please sign up here: https://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/scalar-workshop-2012-signup
What is Scalar? Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. For more information, please visit: https://scalar.usc.edu/ Some examples of scholarly work published in Scalar can be seen here: https://scalar.usc.edu/scalar/showcase/
Eric Loyer is Co-PI (with Tara McPherson) of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC) and Creative Director of Vectors: Journal of Culture & Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (https://vectors.usc.edu/) and ANVC. He is a media artist and creative director working at the intersection of interactivity, story, music and animation. His work has been exhibited online and internationally at venues including Artport at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Digital Gallery at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Prix Ars Electronica; Transmediale; and IndieCade. Loyer’s award-winning website The Lair of the Marrow Monkey was one of the first to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, and his serialized web narrative Chroma went on to win the Best Digital Creation award at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media. As Creative Director ofVectors, Loyer has designed over a dozen interactive essays in collaboration with numerous scholars including the Webby-honored documentary Public Secrets, and his commercial portfolio includes Clio and One Show Gold Award-winning work for Vodafone, as well as projects for BMW, Sony, and NASA. He is the founder of interactive design studio Song New Creative, and develops story-driven interactive entertainment under the Opertoon label, including the best-selling, critically-acclaimed iOS application Strange Rain. A recipient of a Rockefeller Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, Loyer has a B.A. in Cinema/Television Production from the University of Southern California.