Ivar Zeile

Denver Digerati and Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design (RMCAD) launch a new collaborative effort that presents the school's Spring 2020 Graduating Students' final projects as a Virtual Art Exhibition through Supernova.video, Denver Digerati’s consumer streaming app. The collaboration is in response to the COVID19 crisis that has shuttered public venues, causing students and institutions to seek online solutions. To prepare for this experience, the Philip J. Steele Gallery has worked remotely with students to convert student-captured documentation of 2D and 3D work into professional motion-based videos. The directive elevates the student artworks in a manner most compatible with the school's original curriculum goals. The elegant context of the Supernova Consumer App is ideal for the public anywhere in the world to engage with the student projects at the conclusion of their studies. The collaboration also provides RMCAD student participants, and their associate networks, full access to the extensive, thoughtfully curated content housed within the app, an expansive showcase of the world’s best digital animation and motion-based art delivered each September at the Supernova Digital Animation Festival. Discover the hard work of Denver’s newest artists and designers through this inaugural Virtual Art Exhibition. As one of Colorado’s leading arts institutions, RMCAD has a long history of presenting outstanding contemporary art exhibitions, dovetailing in recent years with some of Denver Digerati's top tier of motion-based artists. They've gone the extra mile at this time to provide an optimized solution for their students, with pathways for future development that will be critical for finding and navigating their careers. Denver Digerati is Art & Tech, in Motion.

Denver Digerati offers up an exciting slate of “remixed” animations by five artists who have been an integral and exciting part of Supernova past and present, to be presented on a vertical LED screen within a stage-set designed by emerging creative agent b1n4ry for Meow Wolf's DARK PALACE. Digerati spotlights artists Mark Klink, Faiyaz Jafri, Chaerin Im, Ryan Wurst and Steven Lapcevic with remixes of their thought-provoking and often hard-hitting animations, adapted for the unusual parameters of the stage and delivering a new angle on adaptability within the increasingly diverse, exciting arena of digital-visual-integration.

In 2019, the Denver Film Festival implemented a large format indoor LED screen for the first time within their annual Film Annex location at the McNichols Building in the heart of Denver, in support of the VR lounge and other new media activations taking place within. Denver Digerati served as the content host for the screen, presenting a specific mix of works from Supernova Digital Animation Festival 2018-2019, as well as Digerati commissioned animations pre-dating Supernova. For ten days, the screen engulfed and engaged visitors with a dynamic display of digital animation, creating a powerful, focal visual centerpiece for the Annex. Artist works referenced in this document include: Kendra Fleischman, Ming-Chieh Chen, Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palermo, Dirk Koy, Milton Croissant Iii, Jeremy Couillard, Eli Ayres, Faiyaz Jafri, The Rodina, Pnsy Studio, Patrick Henry, John R. Morrison, Laleh Mehran, Sabrina Ratte, Barry Whittaker, MSHR, Mark Klink, Wing Ho, Allen Hu, David Bennett, & Esstro9

Denver Digerati director Ivar Zeile crafted this reel of CU Denver's LYNX 2019 Summer Camp student works following the culmination of their immersive summer learning experience, as a special showcase for Supernova Digital Animation Festival.

Denver Digerati teamed up with CU Boulder’s Sonic Arts Program for the first dd@bb event, a free evening performance held January 27th 2018 featuring SUPERNOVA animator Victor Morales collaborating with experimental music acts Duluoz and Zone Motif. The performance was held at the ATLAS Institute’s Experimental Black Box Theatre located at Roser ATLAS Center on the CU Boulder campus. The facility offers a wide range of state-of-the-art media capabilities perfectly suited for dynamic explorations that are an evolving component within today’s performance environment. The core of dd@bb is to pair visual artists from Denver Digerati’s distinct network of international animators, cultivated as a result of SUPERNOVA Festival, with pioneering local musicians and sound artists for immersive experiences that tap each affiliates distinct sonic and visual sensibilities. Victor Morales was Digerati's first selection to initiate the series, the artist's work having been featured in both SUPERNOVA 2016 and 2017 Festivals. Morales is a dedicated leader in applying video game engines and self-constructed frameworks for diverse applications in motion-art and digital animation. Morales was paired with music acts Duluoz and Zone Motif for the evening's improvised collaboration. Duluoz is an experimental electronic music project from Denver producer Ponyrok aka Pete Nyvall, whose work as Duluoz is intended to be a journey into the unknown, an aural voyage through a darker world that provides listeners with a space to lose themselves. Zone Motif is a new outlet from Miles Hurwitz, aka Lone Dancer, that debuted with this performance, turning his focus away from the dancefloor with touches of Ambient, Dub, rhythmic experiments and spaced-out synth jams. More information regarding Denver Digerati and its unique programming angles can be found at denverdigerati.com

Curating Digital content with Ivar Zeile / Superonva Digital Animation Festival A workshop presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver in conjunction with Denver Digerati, Summer 2018 This program will introduce teens to curatorial theory and practices used by Ivar Zeile in his selection of work for Supernova Digital Animation Festival. It will give them perspective into digital animation as a contemporary practice, and experience reviewing work submitted as part of a juried selection process. Each session will be structured, and lead by Ivar with support from MCA Denver staff. This summer program will be used as a launch point to identify teen centric programming for Digerati events, including Supernova. Works sampled for this promotion are by: Jeremy Couillard Save Me Oh Faiyaz Jafri Jeron Braxton Peter Burr Raquel Meyers Mattis Dovier Wednesday Kim Tea Strazicic Hibanana Studio

In 2016 Denver Digerati submitted concepts to AEG Live for their massive New Year's Eve extravaganza "Decadence," the state's largest New Years Eve celebration held at the Colorado Convention Center. The concept was tailored to the year's theme "City of Dreams," proposing a selection of short-form animations that were presented at the inaugural SUPERNOVA festival. The working title "Trip City" is a reference to the impact of the visuals and artists who created them, including Aujik, densuke28, Chris Coleman, Zhang Wang and Keichi Matsuda, as well as Claudia Mate's recent composition of a woman walking as if on a fashion runway, and ultimately tripping and disintegrating into the ground. This document shows snippets of the looped project, presented on three LED screens within the convention center near the entrance to the event. The project is an excellent example of how digital animation can enliven an event context, leveraging visionary artist animations delivered through LED display design.

Denver Digerati was invited to screen two programs at the 2015 Cutout Fest in Queretaro, Mexico, one of the largest and most polished animation and digital art festivals in the world. While the majority of the festival screenings occur in the magnificent theater located in the heart of the historic city center, the public forum takes place in an adjacent plaza that allows for crowds to gather in the traditional manner that Mexican culture supports throughout the day in open-air plazas that are simply extraordinary to behold both day and night. Denver Digerati's 2014 curated program "Kid Wonder" proved perfect as a showcase of worldwide animation to be screened as one of two programs in this year's public forum at Cutout fest. An inflatable screen was erected at one end of the plaza, with both traditional seating as well as reclining wooden loungers provided for those wanting to take in the entire program. Once the lights dimmed at 8:30pm the show was presented to the largest audience by far to ever experience a Denver Digerati public event. This document is a single take of the entire screening, featuring a wandering camera that attempt to capture all of the multi-facets of the the presentation. Certainly nothing can replicate the amazing context of being there in person, but this attempt gives a flavor for what locals experienced that evening. Mucho Gusto! We encourage everyone to discover Cutout Fest and the city of Queretaro that hosts this world-class event. It's a gem that will hold long and lasting memories for Denver Digerati and all who attend.

Denver Digerati continues to make major advances in the development of our network and a broadening context in which our work is proving both effective and useful. After presenting one of our most striking curatorial reels to date, the captivating “Digital Animation NOW!” for last July’s Friday Flash series, Denver Digerati was asked to support the Colorado Innovation Network’s fourth annual COIN Summit, one of the most prestigious environments in which we could present our work. The COIN Summit is an invitation-only, two-day event comprised of more than 300 executives from higher education, research labs, cross-industry networks and government, all gathered for presentations and discussions centered around innovation in both Colorado and the world at large. Denver Digerati certainly resonates as an innovative initiative, standing as a major progression in motion-art as well as contemporary art and its role in today's society. Denver Digerati presented samples from four years of programming efforts in the context of the Summit's Innovation Celebration Dinner last Tuesday evening at the Commons on Champa. The Commons is a unique facility for Denver, acting as a share-space for entrepreneurs as well as a technology forward environment with a variety of screens and systems for displaying moving, static or computer driven content on a large scale for instructional as well as display purposes. Denver Digerati is the perfect fit for the facility as a daily vehicle for showing the next level of art in our digital age, and more so as an all-encompassing setting for visual stimulation for large-scale happenings and events. This year’s emergence of the facility is perfectly in tune with Digerati’s unique history, instigating a vast number of screens in different scales and orientations throughout that require an advanced content library in order to populate in a meaningful way. Denver Digerati's participation in the context of the summit was exemplary, showing that digital art can captivate on the same level as traditional “contemporary art,” and even prove to be equally thought provoking for an age in which the collective consciousness is fixated on screens as vehicles for delivering the content of their daily lives. The impact was substantial from the vibe that coursed throughout the evening, lasting well into the next morning when the summit’s master of ceremonies, Leah Hunter, an authority on technology and civilization, opened her remarks with major applause for our initiative. Denver Digerati associate videographer Lindsay Sullivan documented the evening in spectacular fashion, capturing the interaction of the audience within the context of Denver Digerati's all-screen presentation while securing rare interview footage with numerous participants, including the Colorado State Governor John Hickenlooper as well as other honorable guests.