Lou Pizante
Many thanks to Lou Pizante for writing about the Lumonics Legacy Project
Denver’s Lumonics Legacy Project is taking the term “retro revival” to new, illuminated heights, aiming to preserve the trippy brilliance of Mel and Dorothy Tanner’s 1969 light sculptures. Barry Raphael and Marc Billard, the dynamic duo now in their seventies, are fundraising $30,000 to breathe new life into over 200 stored sculptures, all while hosting immersive shows that would make Burning Man blush. Their ultimate goal? Create an art center so dazzling, it could turn any skeptic into a starry-eyed believer.
To support the ongoing Lumonics Legacy Project, see the Spotfund campaign website. Lumonics Immersed happens at 8 p.m. every Saturday, Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery, 800 East 73rd Avenue, Denver.
*Lou Pizante is the co-editor of The Experientialist, a a newsletter that “charts the intersecting parallels of design, technology, culture, and commerce”.
