U.K. – Working with producers Vision Nine Arts & Entertainment, XL Video supplied a multi-channel camera system and video projection for the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular UK live concert tour.
Read More »MENDIG, Germany — Separate lighting strikes injured crew and campers attending the Rock am Ring festival in early June. The first strike affected eight production crew members working backstage at around 1 a.m. on June 6. Less than three hours later, another 25 campers were injured by a second strike.
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NEW YORK – The theme for the 2015 Spring Benefit for the Storefront for Art and Architecture was TRANS – transfigured, transparent, translucent, transsexual, transatlantic, transcendent – so it was only natural for WorldStage to transform a working construction site into the venue for the gala in just seven hours.
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GERMANY – Gunter Hacker selected Robe Pointes moving heads as part of the lighting rig for Herbert Grönemeyer’s latest tour.
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BALTIMORE, MD – Event Tech is proud to announce the addition of Jonathan Chevalley as Account Executive.
Read More »AUSTRALIA – Staging Connections Group Limited has entered a Scheme Implementation Agreement with PSAV under which PSAV would, subject to shareholder approval, acquire 100% of SCGL.
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EVANSVILLE, IN – For a new 300-seat thrust theatre at the University of Southern Indiana, Theatre Projects designed the lighting system, which includes a NEO lighting control console from Philips Strand Lighting.
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MONTREAL — The Quartier des Spectacles Partnership announced its collaboration with Christie Digital System on June 10, 2015. The relationship involves the supply of projection equipment for the Urban Digital Laboratory (UDL), which presents digital works in the Quartier des Spectacles. The arrangement makes the California-based company, whose Canadian headquarters is in Kitchener, Ontario, the UDL’s official major partner.
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Chauvet Professional’s 3.9mm pixel pitch PVP X3 modular indoor LED video panel packs 16,384 LEDs in each panel’s 19.7 x 19.7 inch (500mm square) display surface. The SMD 2121 black body Tri-Color (red, green, blue) LEDs promise exceptional clarity, brightness and color reproduction.
Read More »SURREY, U.K. – Members of the U.K. entertainment technology industry will be converging at the Sandown Park Racecourse in Surrey on June 17 to take part in the Behind the Scenes Go-Karting Day. Thirty teams of six drivers will put their driving skills and powers of endurance to the test for three hours of open air racing, and it’s all in aid of Behind the Scenes, the charity that provides financial support to entertainment technology industry professionals who fall ill or become injured, or to their surviving family members.
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MIAMI, FL – DWP Live and projection mapping artists Integrated Visions Productions relied on Barco projectors for a large-format projection April 30-May 1 on the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami. Part of a national advertising campaign promoting Anheuser-Busch’s “Oculto” beer, the project made use of nine DWP-supplied Barco HDF-W26 projectors, triple-stacked in portrait mode to light up the 360-foot-tall building’s facade.
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