THE PEOPLE'S PROJECTOR
Night Lights Denver is a permanent way for The Denver Theatre District to support innovative artists with an experimental platform while attracting people downtown to experience a free, unique experience.
Our vision for this project is that Night Lights Denver truly becomes ‘the people’s projector,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools and people walking through the district. Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, Orange Barrel Media and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.
ABOUT
The Denver Theatre District
The Denver Theatre District (DTD) enlivens a 16-block area of downtown Denver through interactive, immersive and experimental art and culture events and experiences. It provides creatives with a downtown platform and financial support for sharing their work. The DTD is a private non-profit funded through a revenue share collected from advertising on static and LED screens located throughout the District. The Denver Theatre District invests its outdoor media revenues in cultural and art-based experiences, most of which are free to the public. This model is the first of its kind, setting an example for cities nationwide in how to leverage private revenue streams to fund public art and activity.
Downtown Denver Partnership
The Downtown Denver Partnership implements a place-based economic development strategy to support its vision for an economically healthy, vibrant and growing downtown. Through creative public realm activation with a focus on iconic, inclusive public art, the Partnership is building a thriving center city – a place for the community to come together for meaningful interactions and memorable experiences. The Partnership convenes the public, private and philanthropic sectors to drive progress forward in Downtown Denver to the benefit of all those who live, work and play downtown.
Every Tuesday through Sunday evenings
September 28 - 30, 2020 (Tues - Sun only)
7:20pm - 11:00pm
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October 1 - 4, 2020 (Tues - Sun only)
7:15pm - 11:00pm
---October 6 - 31, 2020 (Tues - Sun only)
Shows Start Between 6:45pm - 7:00pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: Brian Yulo Ng
Artwork title: Fragment
Artist statement: "Fragment" is an abstracted evolving animation that grows in complexity along the length of the tower, evoking movements of smoke, fire and fragmented pieces. To confront the idea of a World on Fire by breaking down various images of destruction and creation, the piece uses the length of the tower to build up a deeply intricate series of movements. The abstracted illustrations are inspired by various imagery. Isolation, outrage and a deconstruction of our current situation in the world.
Website: https://www.thefourthchromatic.com
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Chaerin Im
Artwork title: While the world is on fire, I’m in my bed alone
Artist statement: Even when we feel helpless, stuck and frustrated, our struggle continues on.
Website: https://vimeo.com/chaerinim
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Gabriela Ilijeska
Artwork title: Solis Somnium
Artist statement: “Solis Somnium” imagines the Sun’s primordial dream, through the eternal cycles of life, death and rebirth.
Website: https://www.timeblendmedia.com
Date: September 2020
Time:See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Heather Crank
Artwork title: Unconquerable
Artist statement: This piece is based loosely on the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and is arranged into 5 sections; Patterns of Behavior, Torment, Broken hearts and We rise.
Website: https://crahmanti.com/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Danou Jenny He
Artwork title: Dancers in the Dark
Artist statement: Today, I find us in meditation, breathing between falling and rising, burning and blooming.
Website: https://www.danoujennyhe.com/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Michael Edwards
Artwork title: Wall Film
Artist statement: A peak inside the wall; not quite behind, but through. A colorful wall for dark times.
Website: https://charminglunatic.com/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Raquel Meyers
Artwork title: The Embodiment of Chaos
Artist statement: "Do you want to use the machine, or do you want the machine to use you?” - From Cowboy Bebop EP 19
Website: https://www.raquelmeyers.com
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire". Raquel would to thank for the Animation Grant and the support during her confinement in Angoulême: Irudika, Acción Cultural Española, AC/E, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa & la Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image.
Artist Name: Sean Capone
Artwork title: Molecular Clock
Artist statement: Molecular Clock: a seething biological hourglass, a danse macabre of phantasmagoric fission...a vanitas for the age of the Microbiocene.
Website: https://www.seancapone.com/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Seishi Irimajiri
Artwork title: Paint the World
Artist statement: Nowadays, people are desperate to catch up on the latest news about the virus on their smartphones, and they have fewer opportunities to look up at the sky. I hope the beautiful images that will be projected onto the giant building will give many people a sense of peace.
Website: http://seishi.work/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire"
Artist Name: Rick Silva and Nicolas Sassoon [pictured]
Artwork title: Cores #9
Artist statement: CORES #9 is a collaborative digital animation by Rick Silva & Nicolas Sassoon using a high-resolution 3D-scanned rock as its basis and starting point. The rock model is altered using Boolean operations and textural animations, revealing an abstract pulsating layer within the stone and suggesting unnatural geological properties.
Website: http://nicolassassoon.com/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire". A version of the project CORES will be officially launched online in September, alongside an essay by Jussi Parikka and Elise Misao Hunchuck. This will include the previous 8 animations Rick and I made for the project, it won't include the piece we created for Denver!
Artist Name: Rick Silva [pictured] and Nicolas Sassoon
Artwork title: Cores #9
Artist statement: CORES #9 is a collaborative digital animation by Rick Silva & Nicolas Sassoon using a high-resolution 3D-scanned rock as its basis and starting point. The rock model is altered using Boolean operations and textural animations, revealing an abstract pulsating layer within the stone and suggesting unnatural geological properties.
Website: https://ricksilva.net/
Date: September 2020
Time: See calendar above
Note: Curated by Denver Digerati as part of the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival "World on Fire". A version of the project CORES will be officially launched online in September, alongside an essay by Jussi Parikka and Elise Misao Hunchuck. This will include the previous 8 animations Rick and I made for the project, it won't include the piece we created for Denver!
Supernova Digital Animation Festival
About: Denver Digerati presents the 5th annual Supernova Digital Animation Festival, an exhibition and month-long celebration of the world’s best digital animation and motion-art. World on Fire is an apt theme for 2020 Supernova, supporting the need for a much greater collective consciousness across all critical paths and intersections with humanity.
Website: https://denverdigerati.org/supernova-4
Date: September 2020
Note: Visit Denver Digerati's website to learn more about all the programming for 2020!
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com