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Dataton and Epson Team Up for Projection Mapping Competition

The mapping challenge launched with a show in Cusco, Peru in June.

Dataton and Epson Team Up for Projection Mapping Competition

CUSCO, Peru – Epson Projectors and Dataton teamed up to back the Latin American Mapping Challenge, an event where mapping artists showcase their art on eight iconic buildings in Latin America. The challenge, open for entries from Latin America, the US and Canada, launched with a show in Cusco, Peru in June. Mapping enthusiasts have until July 29 to submit their designs. Judging takes place in early August with the winning contributions presented on the eight landmark buildings from August 2017 to March 2018.

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The ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium.

Painting With Light Gets ‘Black To The Future’

GENK, Belgium – Lighting and visual innovators Painting with Light were approached to design a special feature for the current ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition, which is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium. The environment is a redeveloped coal mine once the pulse of local industry, now tastefully restored and again serving the community meaningfully as a cultural center and creative hub for media and tech-related companies and the LUCA School of Arts.

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Fineline Provides Diverse Looks At Glastonbury with Chauvet Professional

[caption id="attachment_277928" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chauvet Fixtures used at Glastonbury[/caption]

GLASTONBURY, UK – From its humble beginnings in 1970, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has championed performance diversity in all its shapes and forms. The Circus Big Top and the Wow! stages are two examples that perhaps best encapsulate this tradition of diversity at Glastonbury. While both stages featured very different forms of entertainment, both had a consistently excellent visual palette thanks once again to Fineline Lighting and rigs that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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The production crew used gear including ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K, Smart Videohub routers and a series of Teranex AV standards and frame rate converters from Blackmagic Design.

BigCityBeats World Club Dome Experience Delivered By Blackmagic Design Live Production Workflow

FRANKFURT, Germany – The BigCityBeats World Club Dome, a major EDM event held May 31-June 3, 2017, included a multi camera live production PPU solution built around the ATEM 2 M/E Production Studio 4K, Smart Videohub routers and a series of Teranex AV standards and frame rate converters from Blackmagic Design. The event took place at Frankfurt’s Commerzbank Arena and featured more than 20 stages over a 700,000 square meter outdoor area. The event featured top international DJs and VJ artists performing to a backdrop of pyrotechnic and video displays.

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d3 media servers tracked automation and drove the display of video content

d3 at the Center of Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience

LONDON  – “Game of Thrones” fans were given another outlet for their favorite show when the “Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience” played a 24-date arena tour across North America.  The tour featured the show’s composer, Ramin Djawadi, conducting an 35-piece orchestra and choirs performing highlights from the score.  The 360º stage was rich in visuals and dynamic movement; d3 media servers tracked automation and drove the display of video content from six seasons of HBO’s epic fantasy series.

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PR Lighting updated the Butterfly since its PL+S preview. The newer model is the Butterfly II

PR Lighting Butterfly II

PR Lighting recently previewed the new Butterfly among a suite of new products at the Prolight+Sound Show in Frankfurt, Germany. Although it was well received, the company decided to supercharge it by adding five small plates on the central disk, containing 15 x 1W LEDs, to the 6 x 40W Osram R/G/B/W 4 in 1 LEDs already existing. It is now known as the Butterfly II.

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JC from GLS Lighting looking after the MQ200 console on the Avalon Stage

ChamSys Supports Array of Artists at Glastonbury

PILTON, U.K. – ChamSys consoles were widely used at the 2017 edition of the Glastonbury Festival. From the Other Stage, where the event’s top headliners performed, to the Silver Hayes WOW Stage, where LDs cooked up hot looks for EDM artists, ChamSys products were used at the festival. Pictured here, JC from JC from GLS Lighting looks after the MQ200 console used for the event’s Avalon Stage.

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