About

Steve Boyer is an artist, designer, inventor and theorist with over 25 years of experience creating content and developing technology for a wide variety of interactive media. He has designed video games, electronic toys and musical instruments and collaborated with dozens of artists on interactive installations. Much of his work has involved exploring the spatial qualities of light and sound and has been granted 2 US patents for his work in musical instrument and animated light design. He is a guest member of Workshop LEVITAS, an AIA award-winning international design collaborative of architects, engineers, interactive designers and experimentalists and worked with them to produce Crosswired, a responsive architectural installation with light and music that premiered at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles in 2007.

Mr. Boyer was the founder of Skyboy Productions, Inc., a boutique game studio in Chicago that produced the international arcade hit Police Trainer. Prior to that he served as Senior Audio Producer at Viacom New Media, responsible for the development of audio technology and content for computer and console games. Mr. Boyer also served as Director of Research and Development at Vivendi Games prior to the merger of Activision and Blizzard.

In the academic arena Mr. Boyer was Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Art and Technology Studies from 1995-2001. He earned a Master of Architecture degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 2005. While at SCI-Arc he collaborated with architects Wes Jones and Doug Jackson to create a robotic architectural space in which steel beams and columns reposition themselves under the control of Mr. Boyer’s custom industrial robotic mechanisms. Upon graduation Mr. Boyer resumed his teaching career in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego where he taught classes in art and technology. His recent work has involved exploring the impact of architecurally-scaled electronic media on the perception of space and social structure. Currently he is a Senior Lecturer in the Product Design Department at Otis College of Art and Design and is active as an inventor and designer of electronic toys.