SYRACUSE, NY – A new president, secretary, vice presidents of commissions and six directors were chosen in the most recent USITT Board of Directors Election. The board oversees leadership of USITT, the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the national non-profit for performing arts design and technology professionals. USITT’s President-Elect, Dan Culhane, will begin his three-year term as president beginning June 30, 2018.
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GERMANTOWN, WI —WAGO named Sergio Vergara senior sales and application engineer of Eastern Canada. He has lived in Canada for the past three years and is fluent in French, English and Spanish. An avid learner, he is currently working on his fourth language, Russian. Vergara plans to take his project-based experience and apply it to engineering support and sales for WAGO.
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WEST DES MOINES, IA — Hy-Vee, Inc., a grocery chain with more than 240 stores throughout the Midwest, is also one of the largest employee-owned companies in the U.S. The company, founded in 1930, used NanoLumens curved Nixel Series LED displays to portray its history in the lobby of Ron Pearson Center, its new confernce and event center in West Des Moines.
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SAYREVILLE, NJ – Typically, when legendary bands reunite, it’s usually for a national tour, big festival or high- profile TV special, but post hardcore pioneers Thursday have never been about following the tried-and-true commercial track. When they got back together recently after a six year breakup, the New Jersey-born group, which is widely credited with putting emo music on the map, came back to the place where it all began – the Starland Ballroom in central New Jersey.
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MOSCOW – An exclusive Claypaky rig of almost 300 moving-head fixtures delivered the high-impact lighting for international game developer and publisher Wargaming Group’s highly anticipated debut video game event ‘Wargaming Fest’ in Moscow’s Expocentre. Production and lighting designers Maxim Martynov and Jevgenij Juhnevich of Moscow-based production company MAX \ MAX Productions specified 81 x Claypaky Sharpy, 56 x Claypaky Stormy CC, 46 x Claypaky Mythos, 22 x Claypaky Alpha Profile 1500 and 76 x Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20 supplied by Russian rental outfits Arlecchino Techno and MF Group.
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Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) announced new Z-HD5500 HDTV studio and field production camera. Featuring Hitachi Kokusai’s latest advances in CMOS imaging technology, the Z-HD5500 promises to cost-effectively address the challenges of shooting in studios and venues with low-cost or varying-frequency LED lighting.
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Christie announced a firmware update for its Phoenix content management systems. Version 1.5 directly integrates with Milestone’s XProtect, an open platform IP video management software (VMS). Christie Phoenix obtains H.264 camera data directly from the XProtect recording server, and automated video wall control is initiated from the XProtect event server.
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WILMINGTON, NC — On Feb. 6, 2017, Sturdy Corporation announced it has acquired all assets of AAdyn Technology, a.k.a. AAdynTech. Frank Gallagher, managing director of AAdynTech, also announced his retirement.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites was proud to donate a lighting package for 1 Night. 1 Place. 1 Time: A Heroes & Friends Tribute to Randy Travis. Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers, Alison Krauss, Kane Brown, Chris Young, Travis Tritt, Wynonna, Alabama and others honored the man Garth Brooks said, “totally saved this music and this format.” The event raised funds for the Randy Travis Foundation which supports stroke research and rehabilitation.
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Building on the success of its Entourage professional-grade touring faze machine, ADJ has further expanded its line of atmosphere-generating haze effects units with the Entour Venue. This flexible, high-output, water-based professional faze machine has an integrated hanging bracket for both mobile use and for permanent fixed installations. Despite its compact form, the Entour Venue offers output of up to 15,000 cubic feet per minute, made possible due to its high-speed fan and powerful 1500W heating element.
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LAS VEGAS – Design firm Fine Design Associates turned to 4Wall Las Vegas for the gear needed to light the booths for major brands at the 2017 CES Show, including Bosch, Canon, Panasonic and Samsung. Fine Design Associates founder Paul Fine has worked with major brands at CES since the late 1990s. He has seen the booths at CES evolve dramatically.
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