The Denver Theatre District also comes out in support of BMOCA'S MEDIALIVE 2012 program with a special Friday evening presentation of two quintessential Rick Silva works that will take our outdoor public screenings to new levels. Silva is one of the featured new media artists on view in BMOCA's recently opened "Visual Rhythm" exhibition this summer and also a participant in MediaLive. His most recent works explore landscape, remix and glitch in an awesomely spectral way that make us very proud to inaugurate the DTD's new monthly series of Friday night digital "Happenings" on the 14th and Champa LED screen, presenting a half hour or so of some of the most amazing motion-based works being created across the globe as well as in our own backyard.
Silva initiates the program with two sublime works. "Massif" is a 10 minute HD video work created using a combination of traditional photography and 3D animation software. Over the course of the video a mountain peak form cycles through 18,000 variations. All the while a digital sun completes one slow geocentric circle around the peak. The structure of the work is remeniscent of a spinning record or hard drive. It will be followed by Phil Morton "Colorful Colorado (Rick Silva's 2011 Remix)," a remix of Phil Morton's 1974 video "Colorful Colorado." In some ways the video work further abstracts Phil Morton's abstraction of the landscape, in other ways the work reclaims a sense of the Colorado terrain.
Silva was born in Brazil, is currently based out of Canada, and soon to be splitting his time between Oregon and Colorado. In other words he's the perfect candidate to initiate this series. Come join us at 6pm on the street and sidewalks at 14th and Champa to see in the most luminous fashion why Silva has been tapped as one of the featured artists at BMOCA this summer.
Rick Silva - Still from "Colorful Colorado"
Stay tuned for more updates on our DTD related curatorial happenings and major events, including a rescreening of the full "SightLine" program in conjunction with the September 29th all-day multi-media event "Blacktop." A new website for keeping up on our digital activities is currently in the works and will be unveiled shortly.
Silva initiates the program with two sublime works. "Massif" is a 10 minute HD video work created using a combination of traditional photography and 3D animation software. Over the course of the video a mountain peak form cycles through 18,000 variations. All the while a digital sun completes one slow geocentric circle around the peak. The structure of the work is remeniscent of a spinning record or hard drive. It will be followed by Phil Morton "Colorful Colorado (Rick Silva's 2011 Remix)," a remix of Phil Morton's 1974 video "Colorful Colorado." In some ways the video work further abstracts Phil Morton's abstraction of the landscape, in other ways the work reclaims a sense of the Colorado terrain.
Silva was born in Brazil, is currently based out of Canada, and soon to be splitting his time between Oregon and Colorado. In other words he's the perfect candidate to initiate this series. Come join us at 6pm on the street and sidewalks at 14th and Champa to see in the most luminous fashion why Silva has been tapped as one of the featured artists at BMOCA this summer.
Rick Silva - Still from "Colorful Colorado"
Stay tuned for more updates on our DTD related curatorial happenings and major events, including a rescreening of the full "SightLine" program in conjunction with the September 29th all-day multi-media event "Blacktop." A new website for keeping up on our digital activities is currently in the works and will be unveiled shortly.
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