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A sampling of Dialog:City art
Published August 22, 2008 at 3 p.m.
Dialog:City
* What: Site-specific art installations and related events sponsored by the Denver 2008 Host Committee
* When: Through Friday
* Admission: Free and open to the public
* Information and exhibition guides: dialogcity.org
Dialog:City's site-specific installations and related events continue this week, including:
* The Veteran Vehicle Project, daily at dusk through Tuesday, at East 14th Avenue and Grant Street. Artist Krzysztof Wodiczko transforms a Humvee into a traveling media projection vehicle to tell the stories of Denver's homeless veterans.
* "Partly Sunny: Designs to Change the Forecast," 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Friday, Denver Pavilions. Design showcase by Charlie Cannon and the Rhode Island School of Design Innovation Studios.
* "Terra Nova: The Antarctica Suite," 7 p.m. Sunday, Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 14th and Curtis streets. Multimedia performance work by DJ Spooky, aka Paul Miller, offers an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent.
* "Air Forest," 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, City Park, in the meadow along the lake. Minsuk Cho designed this temporary pavilion as a structure that levitates by the compression of air. Numerous events are planned there.
* "Antagonistic Aesthetics," Mexican artist Gustavo Artigas speaks on his work, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Museo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive.
* "Hindsight is Always 20/20," 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets. R. Luke DuBois examines the history of American political discourse through the metaphor of vision.
* "O," 5 p.m. Monday, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets. Ann Hamilton works with Denver-based choirs.
* "Revolutionary Love: I Am Your Worst Fear," 5 p.m. Wednesday, 16th Street Mall, between Welton and California streets: Sharon Hayes gathers 100 people at both national conventions to read text addressing gender politics.
* "Artificial Intelligence is Better than No Intelligence," opening reception and dialogue, 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, on view Sunday through Friday, The Lab at Belmar, 404 S. Upham St., Lakewood. Lynn Hershman Leeson's work involves an artificially intelligent, fully interactive personality named DiNA, who is running for president.
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