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14 March 2016

To achieve their goal they utilized two of ExCeL’s vast halls - N1, for exhibitions and workshops and N2 as a 1,200 seat auditorium - and asked integrated technology providers MCL to create a flexible production infrastructure. A division of Creative Technology (CT), MCL London equipped the main theatre and five breakout rooms with projection, lighting and sound, with a rapid turnaround to accommodate a gala dinner at the end of the first day.

The main backdrop consisted of a 20m wide cyclorama, backlit top and bottom using Vari*Lite VL

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The first installation in of ShowMagic in Sweden is at a corporate site - the showroom of GPA-Plast, where ShowMagic is controlling a projector, motorscreen, darkening blinds, DMX-transformers in the roof (nine different channels), and the nine different areas of the company’s product display. The system is controlled via a 15" touchscreen, while a second screen serves as the operator’s monitor.

Managing director of GPA-Plast, PerOlow Jansson, says: "We are very happy with the solution that Fremlab have supplied. We first looked at a Crestron-based system, but the cost felt huge. With ShowMagic we found the same control at a

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Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, who were also responsible for London’s Tate Modern, the Schaulager is home to the Emanuel Hoffman Foundation’s collection of contemporary art - a unique collection covering the work of over 150 artists. Although parts of the collection have previously been on display at both the Basel Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Schaulager will, for the first time, allow the entire collection to be gathered under one roof. Combining the roles of museum, climate-controlled storage space and public exhibition venue, the polygonal-sh

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With 32 different scenes in the high-action, 88-minute, one-act performance, some lasting no more than 10 seconds, and all leaping between disparate locations like bars, libraries, bedrooms and the streets of Chicago, conventional scenery changes were out of the question! Instead, they thought laterally and turned to projection to create the location and ambience for ea

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Following electronics training in the army, George first began TV work at Cambridge-based Pye Television. In the 1950s and 60s he was one of just a handful of projection specialists in the UK with the skills to set up and operate the Eidophor and GE Talaria projectors. Video projection technology in this period was cutting-edge but, at the same time, temperamental. The light valve at the heart o

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This brand new experience, which is housed in three identical 7m trailers, will play a key role in introducing the ‘Twenty20’ concept to target audiences. Working with the event management team from Watermark, Steljes Hire, a leading supplier of AV systems, have provided state-of-the-art NEC multi-media digital projectors to bring the concept to life. Initially, the road show will visit a mixture of sports and outdoor events, beach fronts, shopping centres and commercial hubs in The North, South, East and Mid-West of the country. Thereafter, it will support domestic, Test and One Day International matches.

The experience itself plays on the extremes of emotion i

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Patrick Hill is thrilled with the company’s latest achievement. "Everything about AVC Productions is developed with service in mind. We realized from the outset that our existing 15-year approved supplier relationship with British Airways would not necessarily be an advantage and we really had to reassess our business and put together a unique pa

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Unusual Services Ltd was appointed by P&O to provide the infrastructure, management and event content for the evening. Maintaining Unusual’s theatre roots, Alan Jacobi, MD of Unusual brought in Sheelagh Barnard as creative director to devise the content for the show.

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This, says Jeffreys, is the culmination of Paradigm’s programme to bring more substance to its infrastructure. Last year the company recruited Paul Wood MBA as general manager and set out a much more aggressive business plan. "Part of the rationale in increasing our business as a manufacturer was to improve our capacity in a controlled way, and ISO was a useful exercise in that it gave us the chance to review our business and highlight some areas where we needed to make improvements," said Jeffreys. "The other reason fo

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The Vikuiti XRVS-120 is a result of a recently reached in-principle agreement for 3M to exclusively provide SoundVu technology to the professional rear projection screen market. NXT's SoundVu technology turns the projection screen itself into a Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) by using actuators positioned at the 'invisible' edge to vibrate the screen, locking sound and vision as one. NXT's SoundVu technology works without adding depth or size to the unit and, by using the screen, eliminates th

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The Centre was originally opened in 2000, but just over three years ago the Government started to review ways in which it could restructure in order to have all its services online by 2005. It wanted to transform the way it did business internally, and at the same time improve dialogue - and so it turned to its nearby resource, BT Stepchange, who created the Innovation Centre, with environments that were more theatrical, virtual and dynamic, and with a reception area that would have high visual impact.

"The idea," said outgoing centre manager Joe Crofts, "was to move people's mindsets away from their da

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The Hippotizer can be played live, replay a preset sequence of effects, or, when given a sound source, left to create effects based on those selected. It is available in two versions: the Hippotizer Lite includes The Hippotizer Media Server, a 3U rack-mount unit with remote keypad allowing direct and immediate access to content. Hippotizer Pro builds on th

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Barco’s SLM R8 projector, which forms part of Barco’s SLM projection range, is equipped with a 3-chip DLP sub-system, features SXGA resolution Digital Micro Mirror Devices and a state-of-the-art optical system, and provides a compact, multi-purpose solution

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"The new HD FrEND can be mounted conveniently within a kiosk or installed behind plasma displays used prominently in a variety of AV and presentation applications," said Anthony Magliocco, manager of business development at MediaSonic. "The MS9400 is a flexible platform that will provide a critical foundation for new HD product development alongside our iMediate media networking applications. The compact size of our HD FrEND enables placement of player systems in areas that previo

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The competition was established to recognize the creative and effective integration of technology into projects that incorporate audio-visual equipment. All types of projects were considered, including corporate, worship, retail, education, medical facilities, urban design, historic buildings and hospitality and entertainment venues. Winners were voted for by an independent panel of judges, who considered concept, process, design, solution, results and creativity as guidelines when reviewing the entries.

At the awards ceremony on 3 June at Infocomm 2003 in Orlando, Florida, Electrosonic was presented with two of the six awards for their installations at Thinktank in Birmingham and the Imperial

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One of Brisbane's oldest taverns, St Paul's was recently rescued from being nothing but a dust trap, and has been refurbished into an outstanding venue for live jazz and blues, as well as for private functions. Each area of the venue features a Turbosound-based audio system, from the venue's small function room - equipped with four Impact 50 loudspeakers and two Impact 110 sub-bass un

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The new 13,500sq.ft premises have been completely gutted and rebuilt by XL: in addition to an open plan office set-up, the building features a dedicated camera cleaning centre and a projector service area, allowing these specialist pieces of kit to be cared for in clinically clean environments. There’s also a large open prep area so equipment can be prepared to

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Technical manager and ISO co-ordinator David Foster said: "At TSC we recognize the importance of ISO as a quality assurance standard and the positive impact it contributes towards the company achieving its short term goals and objectives as well as its long term mission and vision."

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ARB’s project co-ordinator Gaynor Molyneux managed the team on site throughout the event. As part of the company’s overall remit, ARB was the key temporary power supplier to the Epsom racecourse, with 16 generators on site for the Derby ranging from 30 to 320Kva, utilizing three miles of distribution cables and distro boxes all installed by specialist engineers to ensure the safe distribution of electricity. The company’s generators powered various hospitality areas including the Vodafone and Classic Marquees.

With thousands of people working on the racecourse,

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Every console at the event was a Midas one, resulting in an impressive total of eight XL3s, three Heritage 3000s and a Heritage 1000, accompanied by a fair complement of Klark Teknik signal processing equipment. SSE employed its standard 'flip-flop' festival system for FOH across both stages. Three Heritage 3000s with an XL3 sidecar graced FOH for the main stage, while a further tw

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For this development, James Thomas’ R&D department has collaborated with IRAD, developers of the RADlite digital media server. The RADlite system fuses digital media with DMX-driven lighting consoles - for example, Avolites and WholeHog - giving DMX control of visual images via a familiar set of attributes - similar to programming a moving light. The collaboration between the IRAD and JTE teams has resulted in Pixeldrive - the RADlite control system being applied to JTE’s revolutionary Pixel Range of LED fixtures.

The new control system allows the synchronization of digital media to JTE’s high brig

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Contracted by production company, Denham Technical Services, to provide a complete relay distribution - not only in the giant tented area, but also within some of the permanent function rooms - CT Screenco were in constant action. Their inventory - mostly supplied by CT-NEC - enabled corporate hospitality guests to have a permanent visual reference to the live action and looped highlights of the previous roun

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The event was transmitted live and recorded by RAI, Italy’s state TV/radio broadcaster, and this year’s technical news was audio contractor Agorà’s decision to use three recently purchased DiGiCo D5 Live consoles. Daniel Tramontani was designer and head of the complex audio set-up for the entire event - FOH, monitor, recording and broadcast. "This year’s exciting challenge was to use Agorà’s three new DiGiCo D5 consoles at this very important

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What drew them was the appearance of a new video control system which can be accessed live, in real-time, from a lighting desk. So what’s new? "What we’ve done is approach this as a light, not video," explained Mark Hunt who is responsible for all the M Box software. "That’s a crucial difference: to me video is just a secondary thing. Videos, especially movie clips, want to be scaled, rotated, colorized - and yes, you can do all those things, but M Box is not designed just to present video. For a start there’s a huge library of stock images on board - over 2,000. With M Box you’ve also got total video control, and