DIG Pop-Up Fest

Non Plus Ultra Sports Castle
1000 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203

Experience a variety of local flavors of immersive in this mini-festival of installations and short-form works! See show times and formats of individual productions below.

Cookin’ with AI (S2 E1)

Museum of AI with special thanks to Lonnie Hanzon, Jessica Austgen, Cody Borst

20-minute experience for groups of up to 8
Runs from 4 – 7 pm, every half hour

Season 2 of the hot TV show, Cookin’ with AI, begins shooting this afternoon. Visit the green room, meet the star, and be ready to help out since the artificial intelligence algorithms haven’t been fully tested. Gather to view ancient artifacts in the Museum of AI lobby, then join a 20-minute immersive theater experience.

Analog Radioart

Denver sound artists wavi-savi

Drop in experience from noon – 7pm

Inspired by Radio Revolten, and the radio art futurists of the 1920s and 30s, this installation aims to pull analog radio away from the constraints of modern programming and format, and closer its spirited beginnings in artistic expression. Analog radio is about place, because it’s always there. Whether to link a community, to listen for hidden worlds, or to invite aliens or asteroids to join the party. Its the permanent, invisible, responsive fabric around and inside us. And we can play with it endlessly. In the process, maybe we’ll learn how it upholds mother nature’s mysteries. Or we’ll just make a bunch of strange noises. Challenge what you can imagine and create with Analog Radioart.

Porch Sitting

Julie Rada/Grapefruit Lab

10-minute experience for 1-2 people
Runs from 2:30 – 8:00pm

Sit with the artist for an unstructured conversation reflecting on our collective future that might begin with “I imagine…I wonder…I think…I feel…” Unhurried. Intimate. Share in periods of quiet moments of shared understanding or bursts of raucousness. Let’s sit together on the porch and watch the world go by. The Porch Sitting protocol was originally conceived by artist and academic Lois Weaver as part of her Public Address Systems.

Taste the Rainbow:
A surrealist ice cream shop

Andrew Novick and Merhia Wiese

15 minute experience for groups of up to 4
Runs from 1 – 3pm and 4 – 6pm

What’s in store with this inside-out shop? The surrealists will keep you on your toes as you sample their wares and wonder about the nature of color.

The Final Séance

James Lopez

20 minute show for groups of up to 8
Runs on the top of the hour from 1 – 5 pm

You are cordially invited to join the illustrious Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for one final attempt to reach the great beyond. For the last 10 years, Sir Doyle has been trying to contact the illustrious and passed Mr. Harry Houdini to try and reconnect with his dear friend and prove that there is an afterlife. However, each year has proven futile. After years of disappointment, Doyle has decided to end his search with one final journey into the unknown.

Tonight’s festivities will be the penultimate attempt and require the strongest mediums and psychics to join.

Will you heed the invitation and try to reach the other side?