Last year Plus Gallery owner Ivar Zeile and assistant Ryan Pattie collaborated on a very special and unique project for Create Denver, the city's annual focus on the creative and art community here in Denver. "Frame of Mind" was a major hit and one of last year's highlights, recently noted in the Best of Westword as the "Best Public Art Happening, Large Scale."
We've digested the energy and excitement that resulted from that project and have been working on a follow-up that is staggering in it's scope and breadth, which culminates this year in Create Denver's upcoming "Urban Encounters" scheduled for the evening of Friday, May 11th. If there is one night all year not to miss, this is it! That night's program will feature our follow up curatorial effort, SightLine, a program that brings the best in video, animation and motion-based art from local, US and international artists direct to the public, presented on the massive, state-of-the-art LED screen prominently located at 14th and Champa. This year's program won't be limited in duration, we'll be screening short-form works with durations between 1 and 10 minutes long, and the slate of artists we have contributing to the project is absolutely world class and on the cutting edge of today's contemporary scene.
SightLine is just one of the focal programs occurring May 11th for Create Denver's "Urban Encounters." The full program taking place that evening only, on and off the LED screen is as follows:
6-8pm @ 1600 Glenarm, Suite 110
SideShop: Beta
24/7 shoppable windows stocked with 100% locally designed goods. SideShop provides local creative businesses a new platform to launch product and ideas without a large initial investment or risk. Product launches by The Clyfford Still Museum, AWKWARD, Winston Lane, Revolution Apparel, GoodApples and Create Denver.
ThePassage
Legwork Studio will transform the inside retail space of the SideShops into an interactive environment through a combination of projection, animation and a Microsoft Kinect. Viewers can interact with the projection to change the space's visual architecture.
7-9pm @ 14th & Champa LED, outdoors
KacheOut
Mode Set will transform the LED screen into an interactive gaming platform. The 2-player video game, based on the classic Breakout (1976, Atari) and Arkanoid (1986, Taito), utilizes a Microsoft Kinect infrared controller for hands-free, motion interaction, featuring audio-reactive 3D graphics. Game on.
7-8pm @ 14th & Champa LED, outdoors
SightLine
SightLine
Plus Gallery and the Denver Theatre District present a luminous display of contemporary short-form video works from international pioneers of motion-based art on the LED screen, with five works commissioned specifically for the evening by local artists. The program sustains a visual flow that is scopic in thrust and captivating to the senses.
8-10pm @ 16th & Champa LED
InStereo
InStereo
Magic Cyclops and Karla Rodriguez host flash karaoke on the 16th Street Mall's big screen. The LED will buzz with audio reactive visuals created by local VJ CacheFlow while the community fills the air with your favorite or not-so-favorite songs.
We'll have more information to share in upcoming newsletters, but save the date now and start circulating our promo video around to everyone you know.......we'd like to see a crowd so large that it shuts down the entire downtown around the convention center for this evening!
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