Artist Collective · AR Platform · Digital Third Space
While gratefully standing on the shoulders of art & tech giants, we — Denver Digital Land Grab — probe the fissure between IRL (in real life) and VR (virtual reality), mapping the unstable terrain in between. We locate and claim space in the digital layer that already surrounds us.
Based in Denver, Colorado, our interventions span the greater metro area and are beginning to propagate across the country, expanding as curated digital artworks and poetry embedded into new local environments.
Digi Land Grab curates and places mixed reality exhibitions directly into public space, creating a freely accessible digital layer of site-specific artwork. While physical graffiti and public interventions can be removed, the works we place resist erasure — persisting in a space that cannot be easily cleared, censored, or washed away. This is a Digital Third Space — neither physical nor purely virtual, but socially constructed, collectively experienced, and publicly accessible.
Free from data mining and privacy-violating media conglomerates, Digi Land Grab offers a framework for artists, poets, curators, collectors, and publics to engage augmented and virtual space on their own terms. No tracking. No extraction. No compromise.
While we produce exhibitions, our deeper investment is in equity through demonstration: showing how communities — not companies — can define the look and feel of their own regional digital environment. How artists and poets can occupy space through curatorial frameworks without relinquishing ownership. How the public can encounter art freely, without barriers or surveillance.
Democratizing augmented reality for artists, poets, and communities.
This is renegade. This is punk.
Each project is a GPS-based augmented reality exhibition embedded into public space. No app required. No permission asked. You access the work through an interactive map — but you have to show up in person to experience it.
The founding exhibition. Over 300 works by 100+ Colorado artists across 12 walkable clusters spanning Aurora to Boulder. Unfunded. Volunteer-built. Still live. Winner of Denver Westword's Best Renegade Art Show, 2023.
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A site-specific AR installation digitally resurrecting two destroyed monuments — the Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC and the Pulse nightclub rainbow crosswalk in Orlando. Created by Corrina Espinosa & Molly Valentine Dierks.
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A site-responsive AR poetry art walk pairing poets with visual artists. A living archive of this moment, embedded in civic space, waiting for the future to find it.
Learn more →Augmented reality lives in the space between the physical and the digital. Here's what it looks like to experience a Digi Land Grab exhibition in the wild.
Corrina Espinosa is a new media artist, curator, and Assistant Teaching Professor of Digital Art at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her practice spans augmented reality, interactive electronics, digital collage, and glitch-based work, with active creative research in artificial intelligence as an emerging artistic medium. She has exhibited locally at the Denver Art Museum, Meow Wolf, and BMoCA, and internationally in Barcelona, Bosnia, and Rome. She is the founder and director of Denver Digital Land Grab.
Elisa Groglio is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator, and award-winning art educator holding a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MA from the College of New Rochelle. Her work spans painting, digital media, and graphic design, recognized for its distinctive line work and bold use of color. In 2016 she received the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture from the City of Denver. She is currently a member of 5AM Studios and Stamford Art Association.
Rachel Caaw is a multidisciplinary artist and maker based in Colorado, creating strange, wearable works as jewelry and accessories. Self-taught, their practice explores millennial nostalgia, loneliness, upcycling, liminality, and memetics. Their work moves between humor and unease, often transforming the familiar into something slightly off. They are also known for their striking cloud paintings. A creative renegade, they contributed to the city-wide AR exhibition Manifest Dystopia.
Molly Valentine Dierks is an artist-designer whose immersive installations explore intimacy, distance, and connection at the intersection of nature and technology. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including with the University of Michigan Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthalle Detroit, and featured in Designboom and The Jealous Curator. As a public artist, she has realized installations across the US, Sweden, and South Korea, with residencies in Finland, Japan, Iceland, China, and Korea.
Lee is a social innovator and environmental educator focused on collaborative approaches to community engagement in cross-border environmental initiatives. His work includes projects with Boulder Food Rescue, The Sustainability Laboratory in Spain, Israel, and Costa Rica, and the Savory Institute. At CU Boulder, he developed the Teaching Excellence and Onboarding Program and leads AI Literacy Ambassadors. His work centers on building transformative environmental education and fostering cross-cultural understanding toward a more equitable global society.
Ian Joseph Greene (He/Him) is a filmmaker and animator whose work merges underground cinema with fine art. As Co-Warlord of Bean Emerald Productions, he collaborates on surreal horror shorts, experimental animations, and punk-influenced music videos, including Doomscroll’s – Automanic (featured on Punknews.org). His solo films have screened at the Butte Film Festival, the Coop Gallery’s Microcinema Film Fest, and other alternative venues. His recent work explores anxiety and embodiment through stop-motion animation using the gum bichromate process. He lives by a DIY ethic and will always believe that all cats are beautiful.
David Hanan co-founded Denver Digital Land Grab in 2022 alongside Corrina Espinosa. Together they built the platform's original technical infrastructure and co-directed the launch of Manifest Dystopia. David's early contributions were essential to establishing the foundation of the platform. He is no longer an active member of the collective.
Digi Land Grab runs on community support. Every contribution helps us pay artists, maintain our platform, and keep building exhibitions outside the corporate ecosystem.
