Apr 08
BEST OF DENVER® /// ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/// 2023BEST LONG-RUNNING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Artists Mel and Dorothy Tanner began experimenting with immersive experiences decades before it hit the mainstream, starting in Miami in the late ’60s. Although the Tanners have both passed away, their legacy is kept alive at Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, which opened in Denver in …
Apr 04
Galactic Trio (1983) by Mel Tanner is one of the newest additions in the performance space at Lumonics, and can be seen at Lumonics Immersed on Saturday evenings and at the Immersive Jazz-Art Experience, hosted by Janine Santana on the last two Fridays of the month. Galactic Trio, a lighted wall sculpture, looks two-dimensional from …
Mar 21
In June 2015, Ryan Warner, host of Colorado Matters, interviewed 3 people in the arts: age 82, 92, and 102.Here are excerpts from the interview with then 92-year old Dorothy Tanner. “Sculptor Dorothy Tanner’s work is best seen in the dark. That’s because the 92-year-old works with light, using materials like plexiglass to bend and …
Mar 21
In the mid-1970s, 2 students from Miami Beach High School, David Chesky and Bill Borkan, came to Lumonics after school one day to introduce themselves. I thought of them as whiz kids. David played a Mini-Moog Synthesizer, and soon after we met him, composed some music for one of our Lumonics performances. He went on …