AURORA BIENNIAL 2024: FUTUREPRESENTPAST

AURORA, the Dallas-based public arts organization founded by
artists in 2010, is pleased to announce the full artist list and project details for the sixth edition of the
AURORA Biennial—the largest free public art and technology event in North Texas. Under the theme
FuturePresentPast, the 2024 edition will take over significant sites across Downtown Dallas on
Saturday, November 16, 2024, offering a transformative art and technology experience to all.

Curated by Kendal Henry and Leslie Moody Castro, the one-night event will feature large-scale, site-
specific installations, performances, and activations by twenty-six visionary artists. Addressing a diverse

set of societal issues such as displacement, migration, health advocacy, and environmental
sustainability, the multimedia, often interactive, installations engage with social and technological
histories, offering speculative visions of potential futures. From algorithmic artworks to musical
performances, the Biennial projects will explore human relationships with technology and built
environments, mimicry and misinformation, memory, and more.
Daniel Canogar, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Alejandro Almanza Pereda will join the list of
participating artists that includes Ciara Elle Bryant, Jess Garland, Doug Land, Julie Libersat,
Melanie Clemmons and Zak Loyd, Steve Parker, Hector A. Ramirez, Diana Rojas, Daniel Rozin,
Tramaine Townsend, Marina Zurkow and James Schmitz, and talented students from Booker T.
Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas.
A centerpiece of this year’s program is the debut of Midnight Moment outside of Times Square,
marking the first time this iconic public art event has traveled beyond New York City. As the world’s
largest and longest-running digital public art program, it will transform the Dallas skyline with video
works by Nancy Baker Cahill, Marco Brambilla, Zoë Buckman, Victoria Fard, Casey Kauffmann,
Kambui Olujimi, Alex Prager, Federico Solmi, and Tali Keren and Alex Strada. The video works will
be projected every half hour at key sites including Dallas City Hall, the Dallas Public Library, and the
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center.
In collaboration with local partners, AURORA has played a critical role in elevating Dallas as a cultural
capital for art and technology for over a decade, attracting over 350,000 visitors to the previous five
editions of the large-scale Biennial. This year’s Biennial will take place across an expansive urban
footprint, centered on the iconic I.M. Pei-designed Dallas City Hall and surrounding areas. With a focus
on bridging local and global communities, the event will bring together regional, national, and
international artists in a thought-provoking showcase of technology-driven public art.

AURORA Biennial 2024
FuturePresentPast
Saturday, November 16th, 2024, 7PM–1AM
Dallas City Hall, 1500 Marilla St.
FREE ENTRY
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