Transmutations (Various Artists)

Transmutations is the culmination of a year-long collaborative project in which eight artists created a series of moving image works, each inspired solely by the final twenty seconds of the preceding artist’s piece. This project, done in the process of the Surrealist parlor game Exquisite Corpse had one directive: each work must originate through an analog photographic or film process before being transmuted into digital form for projection onto Denver’s iconic Daniels & Fisher Tower. The title speaks to the alchemical journey of transformation, where the tactile and chemical properties of analog materials—silver halides, acetates, nitrates, pigments, and iron salts—are transfigured into non-physical streams of digital code.

Each of the eight artists was selected for their experimental analog approach to moving image creation, ensuring that when these disparate segments are pieced together, they form a cohesive yet unpredictable whole. The artists, in order of appearance, are Jason Biehner, Ahmed Salvador, Sapphire Goss, Kevin Hoth, Leah Diament, Markus Puskar, Sharifa Lafon, and Shana-Cruz Thompson.

Curated by Shana-Cruz Thompson. Visit her website to see more: https://shanacruzthompson.com/transmutations

Pictured: "Hothroids re-animated" by Kevin Hoth

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Artists and Titles in Order of Appearance:

Jason Biehner (Riverrun)

Ahmed Salvador (From 'Lie Awake Dirge')

Sapphire Goss (Luminous Signals)

Kevin Hoth (Hothroids re-animated)

Leah Diament (Cooties)

Katie Wiegman with Markus Puskar (Llorona)

Sharifa Lafon (8.2023 - 6.2024, west yard, box store topsoil.)

Shana Cruz-Thompson (From the Desert to the Sea).