Night Lights Denver D&F Tower Program October 2024

October's Night Lights Denver program on the historic D&F Tower is entitled "Transmutations: An Exquisite Corpse Experiment" and curated by Shana Cruz-Thompson. Featured artists include Jason Biehner, Ahmed Salvador, Sapphire Goss, Kevin Hoth, Leah Diament, Katie Wiegman with Markus Puskar, Sharifa Lafon, and Shana Cruz-Thompson. Pictured: "Hothroids re-animated" by Kevin Hoth.

Transmutations is the culmination of a year-long collaborative project in which eight artists created a series of moving image works, each inspired solely by the final twenty seconds of the preceding artist’s piece. This project, done in the process of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse had one directive: each work must originate through an analog photographic or film process before being transmuted into digital form for projection onto Denver’s iconic Daniels & Fisher Tower. The title speaks to the alchemical journey of transformation, where the tactile and chemical properties of analog materials—silver halides, acetates, nitrates, pigments, and iron salts—are transfigured into non-physical streams of digital code.

Each of the eight artists was selected for their experimental analog approach to moving image creation, ensuring that when these disparate segments are pieced together, they form a cohesive yet unpredictable whole. The artists, in order of appearance, are Jason Biehner, Ahmed Salvador, Sapphire Goss, Kevin Hoth, Leah Diament, Markus Puskar, Sharifa Lafon, and Shan-Cruz Thompson (who also curated the show).

Learn more on Shana's website: https://shanacruzthompson.com/transmutations

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Night Lights Denver is a permanent way for the Denver Theatre District to support innovative artists while attracting people downtown to enjoy 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.

Shows run nightly, starting approximately 30 minutes after sunset and looping until midnight. All programs are FREE and appropriate for all-ages.

"The People's Projector" installation is located at the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Downtown Denver, 1601 Arapahoe Street.

Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, The Kittredge Building, Gart Properties, Display Devices Inc, and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.