LEAF 2024 Outdoor Projections Site 1

In collaboration with Denver Digerati, LEAF is presenting a number of outdoor “pop-up” installations that feature video projections that are visible from the street.

Located at 607 / 611 South Public Road in Lafayette and spread across 2 large street-level windows featuring 3 different artists work. The projections loop from dusk to about 11:30PM throughout the entire festival from mid-April til May 4th.

About the Artists:

VALENTINA FERRANDES

Valentina Ferrandes is a London-based, southern Italian visual artist and designer.
Interweaving a technology-driven approach to image-making with archival found footage, environmental recordings, archaeological findings and documentary video, she creates narrative strategies to explore potential new worlds between past and present.

Shortlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize in 2023, former artist in residence at Meta London headquarters as part of Meta Open Arts Programme, winner of Emerging Scene Arts Prize in Dubai. In 2016 her work “Other Than Our Sea” receives a Jury Selection at Japan Media Arts Festival. Between 2011 and 2015 she is a finalist for the international Celeste Art Prize, The Italian Cultural Institute’s Renaissance Art Prize in London and Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Art. In 2008 she is an artist in residence at China Academy of Art.

She exhibits internationally in festivals such as Visions du Reel, Bideodromo, Supernova Animation Festival, Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Cinemigrante, European Media Art Festival Osnabruck, London International Documentary Festival, DokuFest Kosovo, Cairo Video Festival, Rencontres Internationales.

A graduate of Fine Arts at the University of The Arts London, Humanities at Bologna University in Italy and a former artist in residence at China Academy of Art, she also works as experience designer for creative and tech agencies in Berlin and London.

SPAGHETTI CODER

Spaghetti Coder is a multimedia project started in January 2015 by creative coder Toni Mitjanit (@spaghetticoder77) in the area of Generative Art in order to explore new boundaries in audiovisual expression. It is focused on producing amazing graphics, fascinating sounds and interactive animations using creative coding.

DAVID FODEL

David Fodel has worked with electronic media and sound since the late 1970’s, exploring ways of building audiovisual systems that exhibit unexpected behaviors emerging from relatively simple interactions using hybrid imaging techniques to create man-machine entanglements bridging science, history, art and magic.

Much of his video work over the last 2 decades has been an exploration of ‘visual music’ – with or without audio elements. Using abstraction and movement primarily but leveraging advanced technologies such as machine vision and specialized optics and sensors. Fodel explores a visual counterpart to musicality though pattern, contour, displacement, value and variation.

David is an artist, teacher, and curator whose eclectic installations, live-media performances, award- winning sound design and video works have been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally including ISEA, Hong Kong; TiMaDi, London, England; Post-Screen Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; Festival ECUA- UIO, Quito, Ecuador; Future Places Festival, Porto, Portugal; Transmediale, Berlin, Germany. His work has been written about in Wired Magazine, and published by the Experimental Television Center, New Media Caucus, Post-Screen Festival, Hz Journal and Sekans Cinema Journal.

Recent residencies include the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, STEIM, Amsterdam, FEED Media Art Center in Erie, and the Experimental Television Center and Signal Culture in New York.