Category: Mel Tanner

Thanks to Immersive Denver for this tribute to Dorothy Tanner

Jan. 18, 2021 Thank you to Immersive Denver for including this tribute to Dorothy Tanner. This year was full of loss for so many, and among local immersive artists, that included renowned light art pioneer Dorothy Tanner. Dorothy’s collaborative work with her late husband, Mel Tanner, sought to embody the idea of gesamtkunstwerk, a “total …

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2 Years Ago on Rocky Mountain PBS

Thanks to Kate Perdoni of Rocky Mountain PBS for making this video 2 years ago and writing about Dorothy and Mel Tanner and the past, present, and future of Lumonics. (as of 2020) “I love events that require suspension of disbelief; tales that cut under the fabric of reality to glimpse the inner workings of our subterranean …

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Paradigm by Mel Tanner on Display at Lumonics

Paradigm (1976) by Mel Tanner can be seen this Saturday at Lumonics Immersed. Thanks to Third Dune Productions for this photo. The intent of this transformative multi-sensory experience that the late artists Dorothy and Mel Tanner originated in 1969, and that continues to evolve, is to bring you into a state of comfort and expanded …

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6 Years Ago at the Museum of Outdoor Arts

  6 Years Ago : Museum of Outdoor Arts -MOA is pleased to announce:Then & Now: A Retrospective of Light-Based Sculpture by Dorothy & Mel Tanner. Article by Wendy L Pitton R in Artbeat Magazine:https://www.artbeatmagazine.com/now-retrospective…/   also on the Lumonics website:https://lumonics.net/then-and-now-retrospective/