We’re excited to relay the launch of Precision Targets, a sequel to Caren Kaplans’s 2007 Vectors commission Dead Reckoning.  In Precision Targets, Kaplan teams with Vectors Creative Director Erik Loyer and illustrator Ezra Claytan Daniels to extend research into birds-eye views and targets. Constructing an innovative 3-dimensional sequential art immersive space, the project juxtaposes GPS use by the military,  law enforcement and general public.

For more information, please visit http://precisiontargets.com

Come and see Vectors’ Erik Loyer (Creative Director) and Craig Dietrich (Info Design Director) present their work and collaborations at the IML’s Digital Studies Symposium. Topics will traverse design, programming, and scholarship. We’re sure there will be a lot of exciting projects shown.

Erik Loyer | Craig Dietrich
Thursday, February 11, 6 - 9 PM
Robert Zemeckis Center for the Digital Arts, Room 111
University of Southern California

Free and open to the public. For more information, please visit http://dss.usc.edu

“Blue Velvet,” by David Theo Goldberg, Stefka Hristova, and Erik Loyer, will be featured in the Media Art Show at this year’s Electronic Literature Organization conference in Vancouver, Washington. Featured in the Difference issue of Vectors, ”Blue Velvet” enables users to submerge themselves in a poetic wordscape describing the contours of American racial politics post-Katrina.

For more information please visit:
ELO Conference website

Public Secrets, by Sharon Daniels and Erik Loyer, has been named an official selection at transmediale 08 in Berlin. The piece, included in the Vectors’ Perception issue, explores issues of women’s incarceration. 

As a festival for art and digital culture, transmediale presents advanced artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies. transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques which need to be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape our contemporary society.

For more information please visit:
transmediale site

Congratulations to Vectors Fellow Sharon Daniel and Co-Creative Director, Erik Loyer!

Vectors has received a Webby Honoree Award in the Activism category for their piece, “Public Secrets”. The piece, a sophisticated and powerful exploration of the incarceration of women in California, is part of the latest issue of Vectors on the theme of “Perception” and was created as part of the Vectors Fellowship Competition. 

The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to work that scores in the top 15% of all work entered into the Webby Awards. With over 8,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for Sharon and Erik.

For more information please visit:
See the Webby Awards here.

Cast-offs from the Golden Age, a project from Vectors’ Ephemera issue, will be featured on the Electrofringe website as part of the This Is Not Art Festival in Newcastle, Australia (September 28-October 2). Electrofringe is “dedicated to showcasing emergent forms, highlighting nascent trends and encouraging participants to explore technology and its creative possibilities.” Cast-offs, authored by Melanie Swalwell with design and programming by Erik Loyer, enables users to explore the history of New Zealand’s videogame industry in a navigable 3D environment.