Charlie Cannon VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Charlie Cannon and the Rhode Island School of Design's award winning Innovation Studio present the premiere of Partly Sunny: Designs to Change the Forecast, at the Denver Pavilions. This showcase highlights innovative and effective environmental design, urban planning and social action projects; that are working towards a sustainable future.read more...
Minsuk Cho VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Cho's temporary pavilion, Air Forest, has its premier at Dialog:City in Denver, Colorado 2008. The temporary architectural pavilion is a dynamic model leveraging design to create a public square. Air Forest will serve as a platform for public conversation, activating the space through events and planned performance, on the occasion of the Democratic National Convention.read more...
Luke DuBois VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
DuBois' installation, Hindsight is Always 20/20, premiers with Dialog: City in Denver, Colorado 2008. Working with the American Presidency Project, Dubois collected and examined the history of State of the Union addresses. Employing a computer program developed by Dubois, Hindsight organizes each word in each individual Presidential State of the Union address by repetition of use. From which, he creates a hierarchy that ranks the frequency of times a word was delivered in each address. The results are displayed as Snellen Eye Charts, of which there will be forty-one exhibited in the courtyard of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.read more...
Ann Hamilton VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Hamilton's public performance installation Circles of O premiers at Dialog: City in Denver, Colorado 2008. Circles of O provides a public voice, in which Denver-based choirs perform at key public institutions on the occasion of the Democratic National Convention. The choirs act as a collective vocal gathering, sounding in waves, welcoming political discourse. Hamilton's "activist" song draws from the culturally relevant traditions of lullabies and work songs, as well as, the writings of American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson.read more...
Sharon Hayes VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Dialog:City in partnership with Creative Time will premier Sharon Hayes's public speech performance Revolutionary Love: I Am Your Worst Enemy, I Am Your Best Fantasy along the 16th street mall. Revolutionary Love is a genderless love letter written for the Democratic National Convention. Seventy-five performers will join together as a collective identity, to speak the Revolutionary Love text. While the text is not overtly gay, Hayes specifically casts performers who embody queer identity.read more...
Lynn Hershman VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Lynn Hershman Leeson's Artificial Intelligence is Better than No Intelligence, will be exhibited with Dialog:City at The Lab at Belmar, after twelve years in development. Hershman Leeson's DiNA, is a visual projection of a artificial intelligence virtual being who is running for president. Utilizing the portrait of famed actress Tilda Swinton, DiNA is charismatic, smart and able to answer any question a visitor might pose to a presidential candidate.read more...
Daniel Peltz VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Dialog:City will premier Peltz's Karaoke Convention '08, throughout Denver's bars, clubs, and restaurants. Popular and political culture converge as this initiative brings political speeches from both Democratic and Republican candidates to Denver, through the social media of karaoke. This digital media work transcribes the text of 2008 presidential candidates' speeches into a karaoke format, allowing citizens to re-perform these addresses.read more...
DJ Spooky VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Dialog: City presents Paul Miller's/DJ Spooky's large-scale multimedia performance Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Antarctica, the world's only uninhabited continent is not owned by any country, and therefore does not have a government. As Antarctica is largely inaccessible it still remains an enigma for most. Miller's Antarctica Suite examines the transience of ice, as it serves as a text for the planet to decipher. The seventy-minute performance consists of visual images from the Getty's collection and field recordings from Miller's portable Antarctic studio.read more...
spurse VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
For Denver spurse is interested in how new forms of listening and engagement may shift our politics away from a limited anthropocentric model of reality. spurse has developed a new mapping of the city and politics from the prespecive of post-human agency. The map is designed to take participants on a tour of the city and involve them in a series of exercises in new forms of listening. These maps will appear free at various locations throught Denver.read more...
Krzysztof Wodiczko VIEW ARTIST'S WORK
Wodiczko's multi-media, large-scale projection the Veterans Vehicle Project gives voice to Veterans who struggle with homelessness. Working intimately and collaboratively with Denver-based Veterans, Wodiczko's current projection will premeire on 14th & Grant Street. The Veterans Vehicle Project illustrates the complexity of social reintegration into civilian life for returning soldiers, by presenting the stories of veterans who have experienced homelessness, in addition to helping us learn from their war and postwar experiences.read more...
