Supernova Digital Motion Festival

SUPERNOVA Digital Motion Festival

- Multiple LED screens activated continuously throughout downtown Denver
- Competitions featuring $6,500 in total prize money
- Additional projects focused on digital motion art and new-media experiences
- Annual Education forum
- 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 returns for the fourth consecutive year to the Denver Theatre District in 2019, with another sweeping range of programming and progressive community collaborations. The festival boasts an expansive lineup of outdoor screens, including an exciting split-surface screen introduced in 2018 to support the first ever Invitation-only competition, as well as the inaugural Colorado Student Animation Competition. An entire slate of auxiliary exhibitions and programs in some of the most prestigious venues around Denver elevated the 2018 festival, creating an exceptional experience and establishing Denver as one of the most unique settings for advancing digital motion-based art in the world.

Find out more about all that the 2018 festival offered at supernovadenver.com

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

https://vimeo.com/296963449

The core of Supernova is our competition showcase, presented simultaneously on our most prominent wide-screen LED at the corner of 14th and Champa as well as a temporary LED screen installed within the Denver Performing Arts Complex grand open-air Galleria, complete with seating and an outdoor bar.

Three internationally recognized guest jurors are brought to Denver to determine the festival's cash prize awards, totaling $6,500. Jurors are chosen for their prestige within digital media on an international level as well as their involvement with our programming and festival in previous years. Past award winners include artists Peter Burr, Max Hattler, Jeron Braxton, Raquel Meyers, Sean Capone, Jack Wedge, Nikita Diakur, Ryan Wurst and Eli Ayres. An additional six artists have been recognized with honorable mentions, see the full list of award winners below.

In 2018 Supernova featured ten hours of continuous animation screenings consisting of curated, short-form digital content presented on our infrastructure of LED screens, covering a variety of genres. SUPERNOVA's annual solo artist spotlight for 2018 was focused on Jack Wedge, our 2017 second prize winner. The festival also presented Lawrence Lek's recent CGI masterpiece "Geomancer" as part of our long-form programming. Max Hattler also contributed a special curated program of student work from Hong Kong.

Supernova financial partners include the Denver Theatre District, Arts and Venues Denver and Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Additional Supernova sponsors for 2018 included Meow Wolf, Understudy, CU Denver CAM, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Colorado Office of Film Television & Media, Orange Barrel Media, Branded Cities, and Weeden Law. Community affiliations and collaborations in 2018 included MCA Denver, Redline, Denver Film Society, CU Boulder Sonic Arts, Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, NXT STG Collaborative, Emmanuel Gallery at CU Denver, Cricket Cinema and Crush Walls. SUPERNOVA also supported the summer-long exhibition “Pixelated” at Denver Botanic Gardens.

Trailers and other resources referencing the 2018 festival can be found on vimeo at: https://vimeo.com/denverdigerati

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Supernova utilizes a robust network developed over seven 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.

Colorado is widely hailed for the state’s natural beauty and a great variety of outdoor sports. The city of Denver, however, is one of the highest growth metropolitan centers in the United States and the perfect arena for presenting this cutting edge experience. Denver is the only city to utilize LED screens in a comprehensive manner for the greater good with a festival that celebrates a rapidly growing art form that is international in scope and caliber. Supernova is the city's most singular and innovative project to date.

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