AMSTERDAM – This year at ISE 2015, Electrosonic and InfoComm International have collaborated on a series of educational events. Electrosonic founder director Robert Simpson will be hosting a master class on ‘Displays of Today and Tomorrow’ while Sarah Joyce, VP, EMEA and InfoComm Director, will present the first Women of InfoComm networking breakfast.
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BRENTFORD, U.K. – Yes Events used Elation Professional’s new Sniper multi-effect light and Elation PAR, beam and LED lights to create Enchanted Woodland, an Illuminated walk through Syon Park near London.
Read More »TORONTO — Westbury National, one of Canada’s largest pro AV and event/show services companies, announced expansion plans in two key Ontario markets, Kingston and Ottawa. The company also added five team members and announced a 20,000 square-foot expansion and renovation of their existing Warden Avenue headquarters in Toronto.
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DONOSTI/SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain — Basque broadcaster Euskal Irrati Telebista (ETB) has deployed a Riedel Artist digital matrix intercom system within its primary production center in Miramón (Donosti-San Sebastián). Supplied and integrated by Madrid-based Riedel reseller Crosspoint, the Artist solution supports flexible intercom communications throughout the Miramón facility according to the different requirements of various productions, as well as VoIP communications with ETB headquarters in Bilbao.
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Avolites Media’s Ai V8 includes new features including Autoblend, Surface Modelling and a 50 percent increase in video throughput, among other enhancements. The new technology will be featured at Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) in Amsterdam along with Avolites’ other control consoles and servers. The exhibition takes place in Amsterdam’s RAI and runs from Feb. 10-12, 2015.
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GLASGOW, Scotland – Blackburn, U.K.-based lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting plus all necessary trussing and rigging for 21 pantomimes across the U.K. during the 2014/15 festive season for panto producer Qdos.
BERLIN, Germany – Once again Robe fixtures played a major role in lighting the massive New Year’s Eve celebrations in front of the iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, closing a year that celebrated 25 years since the momentous ‘fall’ of the Berlin Wall in November, and that looked forward to 2015 with lots of positive energy and great hopes and ambitions.
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LOS ANGELES – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ new multimedia exhibition, Hollywood Costume, is lit with more than two dozen L-Series LED Fresnels. Working with costume designer and exhibition curator Deborah Nadoolman, the ARRI gear was specified by LD Trevor Stirlin Burk.
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ATLANTA, GA – NanoLumens promoted Almir DeCarvalho to VP, Strategic Accounts, across all vertical markets. Prior to his recent promotion, DeCarvalho served as vice president of International Sales.
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MOSCOW – LD Andrejs Dubkovs included Clay Paky’s Sharpy and Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures in the lighting rig for rock band DDT. Dubkovs, of show design house Lumen Art Divison, credited the fixtures for their power, reliability and ability to fit within the tour’s budget. Novosibirsk-based Elkraft supplied the Italian-made fixtures for the Russian leg of the tour.
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GRANITE BAY, CA – Bayside Church has upgraded its AV system with a complement of equipment from Luminex Network Intelligence that includes two GigaCore 12 managed Gigabit Ethernet switches, an 8-port Ethernet-to-DMX node and three DMX 10-port hubs. Sacramento-based integrator Dave’s World Lighting & Scenic Designs chose the gear, sourced via from BP Productions in West Sacramento.
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EMERYVILLE, CA – Advanced Systems Group (ASG), a data, video, audio and film integration company, added Tim Gross to its technical team in early November. Gross is responsible for maintaining IT systems for a number of ASG’s clients.
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