Night Lights Denver

"Nightwalk" portrays a towering, enigmatic “female” figure strutting along a miniature city highway under the cover of night. As she moves through the urban landscape, her face and outfit continuously transform, shifting between various creatures and forms to reflect an evolving sense of personality and identity. The animation is crafted from a collage of computer-generated videos, creating a chaotic yet cohesive visual tapestry that explores the interplay between beauty and the grotesque. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

Since 2013, artists Jess Johnson and Simon Ward have been collaborating to create videos, virtual reality, and large-scale immersive installations. Jess’s drawings, done by hand, depict an ever-evolving fictional world that melds alien architecture, technology and flesh. These drawings are transformed into video and virtual reality by Simon, providing audiences the simulated experience of entering the hypnotic realms depicted in Jess’s drawings. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

Jérémy Griffaud created a series of watercolor paintings, which he scanned and digitally reworked to form the foundation of this animated piece. From these delicate, hand-painted images, he composed a flowing animation that depicts encounters between living beings—animals, plants, and humans—inhabiting an allegorical parallel universe. Conceived as a continuous, looping journey, the animation invites viewers into the heart of a teeming, dreamlike world. Throughout this ever-shifting landscape, hybrid creatures swarm—part human, part animal, part botanical—engaged in repeated gestures and rituals. This cyclical motion evokes an eternal return, a reflection on the interconnectedness of all life forms across time. Griffaud’s piece holds within it the layered times of the world: past, present, and future, both lived and imagined. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

I animated cut colored paper on black with a traditional animation stand. Like explosions in the night sky; these flowers bloom like fireworks and shower glistening petals below. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

Hand drawn lines transform seamlessly into expectations, fears, memories - intertwining in a shapeshifting dream about beauty and its future. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

"Liquid Strata" immerses viewers in the hidden world of marine snow, a cascade of organic particles falling towards ocean depths. Born from a collaboration with oceanographer Joan Llort, the resulting piece aims to create an experiential "window" into the mesopelagic, revealing what cannot be directly observed: the delicate journey of biological matter as it drifts toward the seafloor. Whilst our knowledge of this global phenomena remains fragmentary, it is both a critical part of ocean biodiversity, and an important carbon sequestration mechanism. In order to convey both the rich biodiversity of this twilight zone phenomenon and the beauty of its complexities, the work attempts to create a "fly on the wall" experience. Modeled from the combination of different observational and data-based research, the resulting process of complex simulation is presented not as a cohesive whole, but as a patchwork of digital and physical fragments. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

"Paeonia Radiosa" takes us to a mysterious place, hidden within the earth’s secret territories, where life and color thrive in unexpected ways. This infinite loop invites us to lose ourselves in its eternal flow, evoking calm and serenity. In this secret sanctuary, there’s always room for light and wonder. "Paonia Radiosa" is one of those wonders. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

"Clepsydra" is a hybrid plant machine that transforms a clocktower into an alternative timekeeping device. Based on timepieces used by ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, "Clepsydra" uses the flow of water to keep time. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

Wang & Söderström is a Swedish-born, Copenhagen-based artist duo consisting of Anny Wang and Tim Söderström. We are interested in investigating the relationship of technology, ecology, materials and senses in the current and future digital and ecological shift. Curated by Geraldine Erman.

"Resonance" is a story of how we connect with the world and each other in meaningful ways, told through the dance of light and the visual essence of vibration, attraction, and sound.

"Working Drawing" examines the medium of drawing as the primary document by which architects communicate construction information. But what happens if an architect begins to produce different kinds of drawings to communicate more than just the organizational rationales of construction? Where does beauty live in the architect's drawing, and how is it communicated before the building is built? Looking at line drawings, impressionist paintings and mosaic collages, "Working Drawing" imagines which personas that Denver's Kittredge Building could adopt relative to different possible forms of architectural practice.

Inspiration came when Senior Artist Alex Riczko read an article about mycelium found on asteroids, and how there is a chance mushrooms effectively came from space. That inspired the visual of bioluminescent mycelium, producing energy so dense and powerful that it has the ability to form portals to other dimensions.

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location created by Joel Rekiel, Denver Projection Mapping. Windows graciously provided by Independence Plaza.

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

SPARK is an after-dark light and projection program hosted throughout downtown. Using the latest in projection mapping technology and equipment, the Denver Theatre District and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District have found a way to fill temporarily empty spaces with light and magic. Artwork at this location provided by waveform.exp

"Micromonumental Mapping: Essence of Creation" is a projection mapping artwork, created by Limelight, featuring a 3D-printed, 1/40-scale model of the Opéra de Lille in France. Viewable through the window as part of the SPARK program, you can see it from Sunset until 2:00 AM daily, located near 16th St and Curtis Street on the ground floor level of the 16th Street Center Parking Garage.