LONDON – The Knight of Illumination Awards 2016 (KOI), which honors LDs and digital content designers working in the UK, announces it has added new members to the judging panels of two of the awards categories. Coral Cooper is now chairperson of its Concert Touring and Events category, with three new judges joining the panel – Miguel Ribeiro, Claire Beeson and Jonny Milmer.
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NEW YORK – To mark 125 years, Carnegie Hall welcomed a long roster of talented artists to perform, including Renee Fleming, Isabel Leonard, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang, Emanuel Ax, Michael Feinstein and James Taylor, with Richard Gere serving as MC. WorldStage provided the projection and lighting packages for the evening. The event featured visuals designed by Wendall Harrington (projection) and Alan Adelman (lighting).
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SYDNEY – Technical Direction Company (TDC) worked with creative communications agency Spark44 Sydney and multimedia designers/animators Spinifex Group on a projection mapping and LED installation starring Jaguar’s new F-PACE SUV at Sydney’s Martin Place. The project reflected Jaguar’s support for Vivid Sydney 2016. After pushing a large “Start” button, the multimedia experience begins, presenting the vehicle on an angled podium against a diamond-shaped LED video wall. The vehicle itself comes alive with a video projection that deconstructs, rotates, recontextualises and generally manipulates the Jaguar SUV’s geometry.
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NEW YORK – For AOL’s entry into the new media fray of Manhattan upfronts, dubbed Digital Content NewFronts, the Internet pioneer hosted an interactive party in the city’s Seaport district that included performances by Snoop Dogg, Demi Lovato, and Years and Years. WorldStage provided Nexus 4×4 and Next NXT-1 fixtures from Chauvet Professional on behalf of Barkley Kalpak Agency, which produced the AOL event.
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tvOne will feature the expanded capabilities of its CORIOmaster and CORIOmaster mini at InfoComm in Las Vegas (booth C6818), including 4K input and output modules and a new 4K streaming media input module. The CORIOmaster and CORIOmaster mini video wall processors promise “anything in, anything out” capability, including 4K. Now, with new 4K input (CM-HDMI-4K-2IN) and output (CM-HDMI-4K-SC-1OUT) modules and the company’s 4K streaming media (CM-AVIP-IN-1USB-1ETH) input module, the processors can accept dual IP streams up to 1080p, 4K file playback and 4K still images via USB3.0 and internal memory – all on one card, in one slot. tvOne will also demonstrate CORIOgrapher v2, the new version of its control software for CORIOmaster and CORIOmaster mini.
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BURBANK, CA – LiteGear, designers and builders of LED lighting gear for professionals in Cinema, TV, and HD Video industries has become a Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product Partner. LiteGear, which helped introduce LED lighting for use in Cinema and TV lighting applications, has pledged a percentage of the profits from sales of their new flagship fixtures, LiteMat+ Plus, to support the charity.
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NEW YORK – AV Stumpfl noted that WorldStage has been using its projection screens for more than 10 years. Michael Halper, vice president of staging at WorldStage, credited the company, which has a wide array of projection screens and related products, for product quality.
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MONTREAL – Montreal’s 22nd Bal en Blanc, Canada’s oldest electronic music festival and one of the first EDM festivals in the world, featured an exclusive attraction by 45DEGREES, Cirque du Soleil’s events and special projects company. Five Cirque acts performing during the Sultan+Shepard set were lit by an array of Clay Paky fixtures provided by 4U2C. Held on Easter weekend at the Palais du congres, the Bal en Blanc was produced by Produkt with One Drop as its official cause partner.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional announced that Jean Lariviere has joined the company’s sales team as Rental and Production Market Manager. He will work to build on the success Elation has gained in working with top lighting designers and exposing them to the Elation product line.
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HASSELT, Belgium – Creative visual design practice Painting with Light helped take Belgium’s 2016 Schlagerfestival to a new level of presentational excellence with an impressive multi-dimensional stage, set, video and lighting design. The event, which sold out so quickly that a new date was added to make it a run of six shows, was staged at the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, which has a capacity of over 21,000.
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GULF SHORES, AL – At the Hangout Music Festival, Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the main Hangout Stage, the Surf Stage positioned at the opposite end of the beach and the AXS TV Stage. Major acts this year included Jason Isbell, The Weeknd, Alabama Shakes, Cage the Elephant, Panic! at the Disco, Ellie Goulding, Florence + The Machine and Lenny Kravitz. In addition to the nearly 90 musical acts, those who attended Hangout could enjoy poolside seats, a Ferris wheel, volleyball courts, gulf seafood, waterslides, or get married by the ocean under a seaside gazebo.
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SALT LAKE CITY, UT – For a high-tech business conference called Domopalooza, Webb AV used 4Wall supplied lighting for keynote speakers including Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Josh James, and Steve Eisman, along with entertainment provided by Nelly and T.I. Staged by computer software company Domo, which was also making a major announcement during the March 21-25, 2016 event at the Grand America in Salt Lake City, Webb AV also worked with design firm UVLD on the project.
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