Supernova Digital Animation Festival

SUPERNOVA DIGITAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL

- Multiple LED screens presenting content continuously in downtown Denver + auxiliary screen hosts throughout the community.
- New collaboration with Momentum Festival Toledo, first LED screen to present Supernova outside of Colorado State.
- Competitions featuring $3,500 in total prize money and an additional $8,500 in artist stipends for works selected into the festival in 2019.
- Additional digital motion art activations and new-media installations.
- Free for the public.

Supernova is the only major festival to focus solely on the latest advances in digital animation and motion-based art, presented free to the public on large-scale LED screens in the heart of Denver, Colorado. The festival celebrated its fourth consecutive year in 2019, boasting an expansive lineup of outdoor screens to display the festival’s primary programs and annual competition showcase. Additional animations were presented on a series of 3 well-placed Satellite LED screens throughout the day, and an exciting split-surface LED hosting Animations created by students active in CU Denver's College of Arts & Media. Supernova also supported two additional indoor screens in prominent Denver community hubs in displaying Supernova content to further widen the public’s interaction with Digital Motion-Art.

Supernova also supported the first ever collaboration to bring the festival’s unique programming to a prominent LED screen outside of Colorado in association with The Arts Commission and Momentum Festival in Toledo, Ohio. The partnership introduced Supernova’s singular international network of vanguard digital animators to a robust new audience, through programs that captured the best of past festival animations along with a simultaneous screening of the 2019 competition selections, with participants across both cities to determine an exciting new cash-prize audience award. A “Great Lakes” focus program also showcased developments occurring within that region’s growing digital art community. This exciting partnership with Momentum fully celebrated Digerati’s focus on positioning digital motion-art as the next level of public art, free for all to enjoy.

Supernova's focal programs in 2019 included the following:

Everything Abstract / Experimental
Student Animation Showcase (with $500 best in category award)
Animation for All Ages
Annual Competition (with $1,500 Grand Prize award)
Director's Choice (with $1,000 best in category award)
Satellite Screen Silent Looping animations

Visit supernovadenver.com for a comprehensive view of this year's programs and activations.

Supernova also launched the first of its kind streaming channel in conjunction with the festival in 2019, which features the majority of content that has been shown at Supernova since 2016 up to the present festival. The streaming service was used in conjunction with a new audience vote award, and will be an ongoing concern in association with future festivals and year-round viewing.

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Supernova utilizes a robust network developed over eight years of unique programming by host Denver Digerati that has brought advances in digital animation and motion art to a network of public LED screens situated in Denver’s downtown core as a new public art viewing experience. The program promotes the dynamic, rapidly advancing impact technology is having in art throughout the world today in an exciting and radically innovative context. Supernova is the future of public art.

SUPERNOVA is presented by Denver Digerati with support from Denver Theatre District, Denver Arts & Venues / Next Stage NOW, The Arts Commission Toledo, CU Denver College of Arts & Media, Colorado Office of Film Television & Media, Orange Barrel Media, Branded Cities, and more. Community affiliations for 2019 include Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Understudy, Central Market and Denver Film. Bonfils-Stanton Foundation supports Supernova with a significant arts-innovation grant. Additional Sponsorships always available for forward thinking organizations

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Go even deeper by viewing our project history on vimeo at:
https://vimeo.com/denverdigerati

View our 32 minute 2018 documentary collage, representing the full scope of Supernova in 2018:

https://vimeo.com/296963449