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
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September 15 - 30, 2022
7:30pm - 11:59pm
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October 1 - 9, 2022
7:00pm - 11:59pm
---Late October 2022
Shows Start before 6:45pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: Esteban Azuela
Artwork title: Aferrado, río de concreto
Excerpt from Artist statement: Ihis work represents a river made of fragmented memories of Azuela’s city based on references of both Christian and Nahua beliefs regarding the journey of the soul after death.
Website: http://www.estebanazuela.com/
Social: http://instagram.com/esesteban/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: John Butler
Artwork title: Time Crystals
Artist statement: Timecrystals imagines the upward redistribution of wealth as an alchemical reaction where resources are extracted and converted into wealth. Wealth generates fun in exchange for labor, which congeals into treasure. Fun curdles into discontent. Discontent is dissipated by ephemeral reward. Ephemeral reward reseeds the process.
Website: https://www.johnbutlerart.net/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/johnbutlerart/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Yaloo Ji Yeon Lim
Artwork title: Birthday Garden Seaweed Fairy
Artist statement: Set in an undiscovered archaeological site from the near future, the underwater garden connects stories told across generations of a fictional Korean family to aspects of contemporary Korean culture.
Website: http://www.yaloopop.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/yalooreality/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Website: https://denverdigerati.org/7th-dimension
Notes: Yaloo Ji Yeon Lim, Birthday Garden Seaweed Fairy (2022), commissioned by FACT Liverpool with public funding from Arts Council England and Liverpool City Council. Adapted for Supernova 7th Dimension Night Lights Denver.
Artist Name: Julio E. Berroa
Artwork title: A Wild West
Artist statement: Influenced by a visit to Colorado in 2018, Berroa blends his memories of mountains in Colorado and the Dominican Republic to create an abstracted desert/mountain mirage.
Website: https://julioeberroa.myportfolio.com
Social: https://www.instagram.com/berroaworld/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Sandrine Deumier
Artwork title: Parallel Movements
Artist statement: Concentrate on things without measure. Being without weight / Dwell on it. Go back the way you came. Follow the movement / Follow nothing of the movement. invent a way to move. Knowing that the last dream will always have been left behind. Knowing that the last dream will always have been inside you. Abandon your certainties. Forget everything.
Website: http://sandrinedeumier.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/sandrinedeumier
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Dante Zaballa
Artwork title: Caterpillars of Dimensions
Artist statement: "Caterpillars of Dimensions" is an introduction to the total psychedelic world. Zaballa has created a caterpillar ouroboros in connection with the esoteric theme of this year’s Supernova 7th Dimension.
Website: http://www.dantezaballa.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/dantezaballa/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Rew
Artwork title: Falling, Growing, Dancing
Artist statement: Three animated vignettes grace a historic landmark in 'Falling, Growing, Dancing.' Iridescent crystals are kissed by light rays, a mandala form grows slowly, and 3D shapes fluctuate. Graceful motion denotes thoughtful progress and growth.
Website: https://rew.media/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/nebulaflower/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Gregory Bennett
Artwork title: Edifice III
Artist statement: Bennett’s animation engages with the surface as both a screen as well as an architectural construct that serves as a structuring formal element for the re-animation of the façade as an emergent structure. My animation will feature a range of animated elements that I have deployed as part of series of ongoing works in recent years in exploring representations of the utopian and the dystopian, including moving figures enacting various ritual-like scenarios, encroaching and receding flora, and constructing and deconstructing architectural forms.
Website: https://www.gregorybennett.net/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/gregorybennettartist/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Mayta Gómez Molina
Artwork title: I are
Artist statement: "I are" is a piece that tries to raise a question: is the self an immutable object or it is a multiple, non-defined, way of inhabiting the world? Identity has always been at the core of many disciplines of thought, such as philosophy, sociology, psychology… Yet it is almost impossible to define as one object that we can all agree upon. This artwork represents my personal stand on the subject matter – I believe we are in communion with other beings, human and non-human, always navigating the passing of time and the bonds we create with all that around us.
Website: https://vimeo.com/ingratabergman
Social: https://www.instagram.com/ingratabergman/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Dalena Tran
Artwork title: Out of Joint
Artist statement: In the seventh dimension, clocks have formed a union. As the saying goes, “it’s about damn time.” Having labored tirelessly in helping to coordinate the lives of humans and animate the world, instead of being shown gratitude, clocks have instead been standardized, mechanized, digitized, tracked, and monitored in increasingly sophisticated ways. Clocks have not only unionized, but are taking a well-deserved holiday.
Website: https://dalena.me/
Social: https://instagram.com/dalenaxtran/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Artist Name: Beatie Wolfe
Artwork title: From Green to Red
Artist statement: Art rebel Beatie Wolfe creates a stirring environmental art piece about human impact on the planet, built using 800,000 years of historic NASA data. “From Green to Red” (taken from the title of a song Wolfe wrote in 2006 after seeing ‘An Inconvenient Truth') tracks the impact of human behavior on the planet, creating a stirring visualization of rising CO2 levels, and asks us the question, is it too late to turn back?
Website: https://beatiewolfe.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/beatiewolfe/
Date: September 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: Supernova, presented by Denver Digerati, is a month-long celebration of digital animation and motion art. Visit the Supernova website for the entire list of events and programs, along with the full artist statements. This program was curated by Ivar Zeile and Sharifa Moore.
Website: https://denverdigerati.org/7th-dimension
Notes: Presented at the UN Climate Change Conference, The Nobel Prize Summit, London Design Biennale and other forums. Adapted for Supernova 7th Dimension Night Lights Denver
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com