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Virga
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Thought Balloons
Thought Balloons is an interactive artwork that playfully inserts software generated text based dialog over seated people’s heads. As people sit on the black bench, thought balloons, like those found in a comic book format, magically appear above their heads. At other times when two or more people sit on the bench a dialog starts up …
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Albedo
Mr. Akan’s work often utilizes fiber optics and light in the natural environment allowing the elements (wind, natural light, etc) to enhance the piece. His pieces force the question of synthetic vs. natural environments. Albedo is an undulating sculptural wall that includes the fiber optic elements used in previous pieces for a night-time presence. The wall consists …
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Acumen
Boulder-based artist Garrison Roots was selected to create an epoxy resin terrazzo art floor for the new Van Cise-Simonet Detention Center. To create his design, Roots layered patterns and images from nature (water, fire, tree rings and a hurricane) to create a richly colored, interlaced work that defines this public place of interaction and ever-changing …
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Light Chamber
New York-based artist Dennis Oppenheim created a large-scale sculptural installation for the north end of the DaleTooleyPlaza, at the terminus of Tremont and Colfax. The sculpture’s title, Light Chamber, comes from two sources: the judge’s chambers and light. Oppenheim was inspired by the people who work in the courts and his concept was to create …
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Denver Convergence
Convergence is a diaphanous funnel-shaped steel sculpture composed of 1,344 laser-cut human profiles. There are twelve jurors on a typical jury, and the silhouettes are multiples of twelve Denver citizens representing a variety of ages and ethnicities. Viewed from the ground floor entry looking up, one is immersed in an optical vortex as the ascending …
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Cloudbreak
The east wall of the jury assembly room is a colored glass image of light bursting from behind dramatic storm clouds seen through a layer of over 13,500 glass tubes that “push” like a cloud through the metal frame of the wall in low relief. Each tube catches the bits of color of the pixelated …
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Reconciliation Bench
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