Supernova 2020 Artists Introduce themselves

This is what you get when you ask over 150 artists to send personal introductions describing their animations. Make sure to watch through to the end for the full Supernova 2020 Program artist lineups, and more. Supernova 2020 Artists knock it out of th...

Night Light’s Denver, the people’s projector, was launched in late 2019. The project presents digital animation in the heart of downtown Denver on the façade of the Daniels & Fisher Clock Tower, one of the city’s most iconic and historic buildings. Denver Digerati was central to the ideation and ...

Denver Digerati began developing protocols for the integration of digital animation and motion-artwork with outdoor LED displays starting in 2010. Supernova now employs Denver’s unique LED screen infrastructure. Programming is featured on multiple screens, located within a 6-block radius in the h...

Supernova selected the theme World on Fire in early January for this year’s festival. Each year, the festival has coincided with a world facing vast challenges, stemming from human impact, that have threatened large swaths of the population. Even prior to a life-changing global pandemic, with no ...

Supernova’s Competition program is the focal point of the annual festival boasting significant cash prize awards, determined by special guest jurors, who represent the vanguard of the digital motion-art and animation community. Animations selected for the competition are chosen for a variety of r...

Coinciding with the launch of Supernova in 2016, Director’s Choice is a group of special selections curated by Supernova’s Creative Director, one with no inherent definition other than the impulse towards creativity, whether radical or ephemeral, ranging from big ideas to those seeking a more nua...

Introduced in 2020, New Voices New Directions is a category fashioned by the desire to showcase emerging artists and ideas, providing a platform for fresh voices, innovative authorship and visual sensibilities that don’t always adhere to the normal understanding of digital animation. To us it's t...

OVERDRIVE adults only animation program returns to Supernova for the second year in a row, curated by Denver Digerati associate Faiyaz Jafri. This program shows how digital animators and artists are pushing the boundaries within the medium, with compelling works that are challenging to display in...

New in 2020, Supernova presents the first ever "Everything Abstract-Sonic," a program that highlights the synergy between abstract visuals and dynamic sound, culminating in sensorial euphoria. Replacing our regular Music Videos program, Abstract-Sonic moves closer to defining a genre that is stil...

What started out as “Animation for all Ages,” a stalwart of Denver Digerati programming preceding the advent of Supernova, has now grown into the most exciting category within the festival. To Denver Digerati, student work is the core that continually inspires us and supports our belief that toda...

This program is a collection of films created for the course Digital Dialect at Parsons School of Design in New York, taught by Faiyaz Jafri. Students created computer-generated animations with digital readymades and procedural principles instead of following the traditional educational route con...

Full program will launch September 15th on supernova.video

Absurd, Abstract, Profound - Over the past hundred years, animation has grown from early technical experiments to mainstream entertainment and back to experimental forms, based on technological advancements. Though video games are young...

Full program will launch September 17th on supernova.video

Hello, my name is Snow Yunxue Fu. I am an international new media artist, curator, and currently an assistant arts professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. I have curated the Space Dust program at the 2020 SUPERNOVA Fe...

This is a video summary of the Future Tense course that NYU Professor Snow Yunxue Fu has proposed and taught in the China Academy of Art (CAA) 2020 Young to Young International Collaborative Curriculum Program. The video is edited by the CAA Professor Zhipeng Wang with the footage recordings from...

A mad dash through the history of Video Gaming, a program curated by Sharifa Moore for Supernova. To be presented live on the 14th and Arapahoe LED screen in Denver as part of Silent Screen Walking Tour on September 19th.

Student Short Spotlight program - Relentless Melt

Relentless Melt presents a program of fresh abstract and experimental animations from Hong Kong. The films were directed and animated by undergraduate students from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong in the class of German...