“Enthusiastic” doesn’t begin to describe Korean-American multimedia explorer Laura Hyunjhee Kim, a PhD candidate in intermedia, writing and performance at the University of Colorado Boulder who ferociously surfs cyberspace in dual roles as an onlooker and a participant.

Denver’s Supernova Digital Animation Festival is an international congress, but Colorado participant Ryan Wurst is one of several artists proving that our region has a growing and inventive experimental multimedia underground.

A poet, critical writer, visual artist, furniture designer and now curator, Joshua Ware fits into a polymath world of interdisciplinary Denver creatives who share ideas without boundaries.

If you’ve ever been to Freak Train at the Bug Theatre, you know about GerRee Hinshaw, whose sparkling patter as host keeps things moving as performers are given five minutes to try things out in front of an audience.

If not for people like Denver filmmaker and projectionist Curt Heiner, a product of the DIY underground who champions celluloid and works to preserve the human touch in film, analog film would’ve been long gone in this digital world.

In the infinitesimal world where zines and small presses collide, you’ll find souls like the Denver poet Catch Business, who support and participate in a literary underground that thrives online.

William Havu Gallery, which opened twenty years ago on Cherokee Street, is certainly one of the best commercial galleries in Denver.

Denver writer, artist and creative thinker Deanne Gertner directs her many talents like a laser.

Not at all your typical artist, Tesla-loving techie Charles Russell fell into his mad-scientist oeuvre while tinkering with electronics and found parts from thrift stores.