LONDON – Draping specialists Cover It Up was engaged by production company Partytechture to black out 40 large windows at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre, a Grade 1 Listed Building that was used to stage one element of the 2010 SKOLL World Summit event.
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WARSAW, Poland – ETC's Polish distributor Prolight installed a Congo jr control desk and 144 channels of SmartPack dimming for the sixth floor theatre at the Palace of Culture and Science.
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PHOENIX – Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design, has completed work on the Musical Instrument Museum in collaboration with RSP Architects. Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre and audio-video systems consulting services for the MIM Music Theater, a 299-seat recital hall as well as audio-video consulting services for the recording studio.
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BOSTON – "TD Banknorth Garden" was a bit of a mouthful. But parent company Delaware North Companies rebranded the sports center, home to the Boston Bruins NHL hockey team and Boston Celtics NBA basketball team, as, simply, "TD Garden" (pronounced, of course, as "TD GAH-den.") Chauvet LED fixtures played a role in the rebranding effort.
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OSTEND, Belgium – LED surface manufacturer Pixled has named Bart Van der Beken general manager. Van der Beken has over 10 years of knowledge and experience in the LED industry, working for Barco N.V and Element Labs Inc.
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SAN FRANCISCO – When San Diego-based Nautilus Entertainment Design (NED) was hired by John Halloran Associates to light the RSA keynote speakers and ancillary events at the annual RSA Conference, the company's lighting designers used Prelite Studios to previsualize content for 85 Martin LC Panels onstage.
Read More »NEW YORK – Nominations opened May 1 for the third annual ESTA Rock Our World Awards, which recognize achievement by ESTA Members in new products, product applications, or projects. These awards were created to recognize both the creator of technology and the designer or integrator who applies the innovation in a real world environment.
Read More »WASHINGTON, DC – Joel Spira, inventor and developer of the solid-state electronic "dimming device" and chairman and founder of Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, Penn., is donating materials linked with the company's 50-year history to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
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MACON, GA – For the Asylum nightclub here, Atlanta-based Integrated Visions Productions LLC has tiled six projectors together to create a 136-foot-wide display. IVP also produced the custom HD content, which is synched to the music that plays in the club.
Read More »NORTHFIELD, OH – Stage Research named Horizon Solutions of London, Ontario as master distributor for Canada. Horizon Solutions is a supplier of professional audio, theatrical and concert lighting and video system needs.
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ELKHART, IN – Harman named Jim Garrett market manager for the Harman High Performance A/V brands, including Mark Levinson, Lexicon, Revel and JBL Synthesis. Garrett has over 18 years of industry experience.
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