page_title: Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System
section_title: "Kinetic Light Air Curtain"
hierarchical_section_title: Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System / Transit art / "Kinetic Light Air Curtain"
caption_attribution_description: English: Kinetic Light Air Curtain at Denver Airport
context_page_description: The Denver International Airport Automated Guideway Transit System is a people mover system operating at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. The system opened along with the airport itself in 1995, and was conceived as a means to connect all of the midfield concourses with the south terminal and quickly transport passengers between them because of the longer distances between each building, especially when compared to Stapleton International Airport, Denver's former airport.
context_section_description: The northbound tunnel features a visual art installation known as the "Kinetic Light Air Curtain."  Designed by Antonette Rosato and William Maxwell, the exhibit includes 5,280 propellers mounted on the wall.  The propellers are accented with blue fluorescent light, and wind from the trains causes some of them to spin as they pass by.  The number of propellers represents the number of feet Denver (the mile-high city) is located above sea level.  Also, the total number of blades of all of the propellers combined represents the height of Colorado's tallest fourteener, Mount Elbert, which is 14,440 feet (4,400 m) tall.  Contrary to common belief, the propellers do not generate any electricity for the trains or any part of the airport, and are strictly decorative.
caption: Kinetic Light Air Curtain
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