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 1 - 12, 2021
7:30pm - 11:59pm
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September 14 - 30, 2021
7:15pm - 11:59pm
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Shows start 30 mins after sunset
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: Sarah Ann Banks
Artwork title: Before it's a Frog
Artist statement: Thinking within the themes of Regeneration and Resilience, this piece is a sort of animated timelapse, documenting a creature evolving and adapting over time. Inspired by the game Spore, animorphs, and projects like Ian Cheng’s Emissaries, this piece will show a detailed transformation of a landscape and character.
Website: https://sarahabanks.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Frank Wang Yefeng
Artwork Title: Whose Peril?
Artwork Info:The project is a provocative work that explores the transformation of the Chinese diasporic subjectivities amid uncertainties and challenges. It responds to the returning surge in hates against Asian communities, and delves into the genealogy of "Yellow Perilism," which roots within a long tradition of Eurocentric representation of Asia as a threat to the "West."
Website: https://www.wangyefeng.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Dagmar Schurrer
Artwork Title: Fibers
Artwork Info: One key visual of my recent moving image work: we are already history, and we don’t know it is the neuronal fiber. The work explores the relationship to our brain as an organ but also as consciousness in the contemporary technological setting.
Website: http://www.Dagmarschuerrer.com
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Peter Whittenberger
Artwork Title: What We Walk On
Artwork Info: What We Walk On breaks down our natural history into an unending network of nodes. Each node serves as a small portion of the Earth’s interconnected histories. As the piece progresses we begin to see the landscape divided by lines and borders. Through each node, our species begins to define how land is controlled and who controls them, leading to our present day.
Website: http://peterwhittenberger.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Corrie Francis Parks
Artwork Title: Hail Mary
Artwork Info: Saint Mary’s Glacier near Idaho Springs, CO, is the glacier that never was. Once a ski area, now a popular day hike, this permanent snowfield contains no ice and does not move as real glaciers do. Or does it? Using sand collected from the runoff of Saint Mary’s and snow from my backyard, I create transient sculptures, replicating the glacial process in a human timeframe by layering sand and snow, applying pressure with my hands to compact the layers into ice and applying human-initiated freeze-thaw cycles.
Website: http://corrieparks.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Nick Flaherty
Artwork Title: The New You
Artwork Info: Awaken Your True Form. Available Now! starting at $19,999,999.99. On a dark and claustrophobic sidewalk between the skyscrapers of a futuristic mega-city, a slouching hooded figure stops to gaze upon a towering advertisement for a new line of manufactured synthetic human bodies.
Website: http://nickflaherty3d.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Lin Wen-Ben
Artwork Title: Deconstruction & Reconstruction
Artwork Info: The first part of this animation represents the forest fire I have experienced in Denver, Colorado. It was a traumatic experience for me to wake up in a smokey red sky. I wanted to recreate how I felt that morning to give the viewer the feeling of anxiety and I animated the smoke rising to the sky from a burning tree as well as the sky changing from blue to red because of the smoke.
Website: http://linwenben.com/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: John Sabbat
Artwork Title: Amazonlive - ICAMIABAS The Legend of the Amazonas 2
Artwork Info: My Video Art, tells about the origin of the name Amazonas, and much more, speaks of women warriors in ICAMIABAS, where the objective of the work is to show the strength of women and the importance of the survival of legends and stories of humanity.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/studio_john_sabbat/
Date: September 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Curated and Presented by Denver Digerati as part of Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2021.
Festival Website: https://denverdigerati.org/
Artist Name: Dream Create Inspire Tour
Artwork title: Generational Healing
Artist statement:This mixtape is meant to spotlight the importance of acknowledging the land we occupy. It features indigenous artists' perspectives on the history of their lineage. This mixtape aims to connect local healers to provide collective healing techniques anyone can engage with as they interact with the video.
Website: https://www.dreamcreateinspiretour.com/
Date: September 17, 2021
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Notes: Throughout 2021, DCI Tour will present their Visual Mixtape series on the 3rd Friday of every month.
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com