MOCA Cyberlounge
2006
CyberLounge was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland through May 7th, 2006.
CyberLounge is an interactive Flash piece, designed to accompany the All Digital exhibition and to usher in MOCA’s new ArtCast program. The Flash app is projected at MOCA as well as installed on two desktop machines in the lounge at the museum. The piece itself features a short animated intro and then a portal of links, information, and images of the All Digital artists. It also features a selection of MP3s from the ArtCast program, showcased in a custom MP3 player.
The piece was drawn up in Photoshop after a number of hand sketches. After a series of revisions, I moved on to laying out the piece in Flash. This was interesting because I had to completely rethink my original idea for the piece due to the amount of content. Luckily, I had the brilliant idea to animate everything with actionscript, so changing pacing/placement/scale was as easy as typing some text. The core of the piece is built with XML, for easy scalability and to enable custom builds for distribution on CD-Rom.