CHICAGO – Professionals and students across the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC), landscape and entertainment design disciplines are invited to attend the 2016 Vectorworks Design Summit on April 25-27 at the Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park.
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LONDON – Light Initiative and FIX8Group will reveal their custom creations for the Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony this weekend. The eighth KOI Awards is this Sunday, Oct. 4, at London’s Troxy. The awards program is organized by The Association of Lighting Designers (ALD), The Society of Television & Lighting Design (STLD), The Fifth Estate Ltd and Clay Paky. Light Initiative (LI) was asked to create the table center pieces for the occasion. FIX8Group’s Richard Kenyon and Henry Crawfurd created the visuals for the KOI ceremony main screen, pictured here.
Read More »BELGIUM and the U.S. – Luminex Network Intelligence, which offers ruggedized, easy to use Ethernet switches for the commercial and entertainment industries, is expanding in the U.S. The company recently announced new sales management partners, agents and distributors across the country, including Techrep Marketing in the Ohio Valley, Camano Distributing West of the Mississippi and and Midwest AV Group, which will handle eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
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LONDON -South London based live event and technical solutions specialist PR Live has invested in its own LED screen surface, with an initial purchase of 120 panels of Absen A3 Pro 3.9mm pitch high definition product, complete with all necessary processing and rigging.
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LONDON – High End Systems will be exhibiting on stand E8 at the forthcoming PLASA 2015 at London’s EXCEL. Once again, it is all about LED, and the Austin, TX-based company will be featuring its SolaWash Pro 2000, pictured here, at the U.K. show for the first time.
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SYDNEY – TDC – Technical Direction Company, creators of transformative video technology for the event industry, has been noted for their achievements at the Vivid Sydney 2015 festival of Light, Music and Ideas. The firm has been shortlisted in the Best Technical Achievement and Innovation category of the Australian Event Awards.
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LSC Lighting Systems’ Mantra Lite lighting controller is designed to control any type of fixture including LEDs and moving lights. Mantra’s App-like user interface and simple programming platform is helping newcomers to the world of lighting make great lighting shows.
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The Axis Psycho 5R from Mega-Lite is a new beam animation effect moving head fixture. Equipped with dual rotating disks that move at different speeds, the beam is transformed into moving shapes and designs, creating a lighting effect like nothing ever seen before. The unit has a powerful 5R Lamp with a 8000K color temperature. It has 17 gobos plus open, a 14 color color-wheel plus open and a 3 bi-directional rotating prism. It is also equipped with a 1-13 dual blade shutter and frost effect.
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LAS VEGAS — When TRU Night Club opened on East Flamingo Road in Las Vegas earlier this year, its location just off the busy Las Vegas Strip told you a lot about the new dance spot: it would be intimate and apart from – yet close to – the action of Sin City. They included a dazzling array of lighting fixtures from manufacturers including American DJ and Elation.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY – Some top names in entertainment technology are contributing to USITT 2016 by sponsoring key elements of the Annual Conference & Stage Expo to be held March 16-19 in Salt Lake City. InterAmerica Stage, Disney Creative Entertainment, JR Clancy, H&H Specialties, and Cirque du Soleil are among those contributing to make USITT 2016 a world class event, with sponsorship of major events, spaces, and gear.
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LONDON – Since forming in 2007, British band Mumford & Sons has toured the world almost non-stop. Now setting out again to showcase their third album, the band’s Lighting and Production Designer, Ed Warren, selected Martin’s new VDO Sceptron 10s and MAC Quantum Washes to make their live show even more immersive and experiential.
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ETC is announcing a potent new power-control solution to the Sensor3 family: the Sensor IQ Intelligent Breaker System. Sensor IQ is a low-cost, low-heat and low-noise load center with switching and low-voltage dimming. Its breaker combines Sensor’s high-inrush, trip-curve current sensing with remote switching control in a compact footprint with support for any combination of LEDs and moving lights. Sensor IQ also provides power for scenery, motor controls, video projection, and audio systems.
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