InfoComm 2013 will be held at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center's West Building, June 12-14. InfoComm 2014 will be held at Las Vegas Convention Center's North and Central Halls, June 18-20. The show will rotate between the two cities in the same halls in mid-June thereafter until 2019. InfoComm has…
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LCI supplies complete production system for Old Billingsgate in London
The venue is one of London’s largest ‘blank canvas’ venues, with the capacity to stage major events, from film premiere parties, private dinners, concerts and fashion shows to conferences and exhibitions. Of its three spaces, the vast 28,000sq. ft. main space, with its triple height ceilings, is the centrepiece, and…
Northern Light supplies newly refurbished Edinbugh Assembly Rooms
The completion of a £9.3 million refurbishment project saw the period features of the 18th century, A-listed building carefully restored and sound and lighting systems upgraded within the venue. Northern Light Direct assisted with this upgrade supplying a range of ETC products, including ten Source Four LED Lustr+ zoom profiles,…
Saville supports RIBA Olympic 2012 experience
Design Stories examines the architecture and engineering behind the 2012 sporting venues, enabling visitors to explore and view drawings, images, videos and detailed models of London's key new sporting venues. The exhibition draws back the layers of complex engineering and explores the ideas and design principles that lie behind the…
New York Historical Society Museum upgrades AV as part of $70m renovation
Electrosonic designed and supplied all the audio, video and control systems. Included in the project is an interactive ‘living painting’ by Small Design Firm which is displayed on a 2x5 landscape-oriented videowall made up of 10 Planar Matrix 55in screens. A Microsoft Kinect camera tracks the movement of visitors and…
Big-O in South Korea turns to Medialon for show control
The artistic and technical production of the show was also part of the ECA2 mission. The O itself features a water screen inside the outer rim, which shows films and other videos. The outer rim also produces special effects, such as laser shows. For the ‘Big-O’ night-time show, the Medialon…
Isaac Julien uses 9 projectors for Norwegian art installation
The AV system for ‘Ten Thousand Waves’ was designed by ArtAV. All nine of the F32s ran at 1080p resolution. “The unique thing about this system is that we output uncompressed, HD video,” said Nick Joyce, owner, ArtAV. “We started with 35mm film as a source, then went through a…
Bizet’s Carmen staged on the Dead Sea
HSL worked with the event’s overall technical production suppliers The Design group from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The lighting rig featured 150 Robe moving lights, a mixture of ColorSpot 2500E ATs, ColorSpot 1200E ATs and REDWash 3 192s. The 2500s were fitted with custom reflectors to boost the light output…
Minnesota State University installs 17-projector 360-degree system for ballroom events space
The system includes 17 projectors combined to provide a display canvas totalling 32,640 x 1,200 pixels. The Centennial Student Union ballroom at MSU uses Watchout to control the content feeds for each projector, edge-blending multiple images together from up to 28 different digital and analog sources. “As well as being…
LED palm tree lights up ‘Let’s Dance’ TV show
One detail of the lighting set-up included the use of thousands of little NOVA LED sphere strips which were suspended from the ceiling. One of the most recognisable changes between this year’s and last year’s shows was a more detailed LED-palm tree construction. On the set the palm tree acts…