Projection Connection News

MIAMI BEACH, FL – The $160 million Frank Gehry-designed New World Center is offering simulcast Wallcast projections of symphonic performances outside the building as part of its mission to bring classical music performances to a broader audience, with an assist from coolux media servers.

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD and ORLANDO, FL – Freelance Technical Services used the Vista Spyder X20-1608 to manage video processing for Capa Productions, producing the DaVita national meeting in National Harbor, Md., and Elite Business Productions, producing the Siemens Healthcare Leadership & Sales Conference in Orlando.

SOUTHLAKE, TX – Systems integrator Beck Associates provided a MediorNet fiber network backbone and an Artist digital matrix intercom from Riedel Communications for Gateway Church, creating a fiber-based, real-time network for 3G/HD-SDI video, audio, data and communications for the church's three separate campuses.

ATLANTA – Inside the atrium near the entrance of the recently-dedicated Claudia Nance Rollins Building at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, an eight-by-six configuration of Christie MicroTiles can be seen in a convex, wood-paneled enclosure. The video wall, which measures about 10.7 by 6.5 feet, is used to display news and other information.

NEW YORK – The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)'s new permanent exhibition, "Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian" relied upon Electrosonic-supplied engineering for 20 exhibits, including 10 linear video stations and 10 interactive workstations housed in the NMAI's George Gustav Heye Center in the Old Customs House.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Gearhouse South Africa's Cape Town branch supplied specialist LED and AV display technology to four different installations at the Design Indaba 2011 exhibition, which was staged at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) and included the Design Indaba Conference and Young Designers Simulcast.

MIAMI – Marco Brambilla's Evolution (Multiplex), a 3D video collage culled from thousands of movies featured at Art Basel Miami, relied upon Video Applications Inc. (VAI) for its 3D silver screen, projectors, technicians and a projectionist.

ARGYLE, TX – GoVision is providing visual support in the form of LED video screens for a variety of college basketball events, with its custom-built LED screens being used in Atlanta, Nashville, El Paso, Hot Springs, AR, Garland, TX and for the NCAA Final Four Men's Basketball Championships in Houston.

LONDON – The Big Bang: UK Young Scientists' and Engineers' Fair, an event sponsored by the nonprofit EngineeringUK, got video and visual production support from XL Events, including camera and PPU system, projection, playback and crew.

NEW YORK – The Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark presented a nationwide peek at the much-discussed show recently on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman. Pete's Big TVs/Performance Video helped project a visual backdrop from the musical.

NEW YORK – For Prince's recent Welcome 2 America shows in the New York area, LD Demfis Fyssicopulos used a grandMA console to control the shows' lighting and video components. Prince played two shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., then moved to Madison Square Garden for three performances before and after Christmas.