GOA, India – Visualization pioneer Barco hosted its Entertainment & Corporate partner event in India on 25 and 26 June. Over seventy business partners gathered in Goa to get a bird’s eye view of the latest developments in entertainment and corporate visualization.
BAKU, Azerbaijan – The inaugural European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes devised by the European Olympic Committee took place in Azerbaijan’s ancient city Baku in June and featured 6,000 athletes from 50 countries. Creative Technology’s Sports Technology provided the entire AV infrastructure for the 20 competition venues and media/athlete areas.
RANCHO CORDOVA, CA – Barco gear supported the multi-faceted Electronic Opus, part of Miami Music Week earlier this year. Volvox Labs designed and built a 52’ x 13’ topographic wall as a video mapping surface for the event, which featured the work of EDM artist, film composer and technologist Brian Transeau (BT).
tvONE Training Academy will hold CORIO 2 & Magenta Training on various dates from July 8th to December 2nd, as well as CORIO3 Training July 9th through December 3rd.
KANSAS CITY, MO – Bazillion Pictures won a Gold National ADDY at The American Advertising Federation (AAF) 2015 Award Show for ‘The Monument Comes Alive,” an architectural mapped video projection that transformed the look of Union Station in Kansas City.
ORLANDO, FL – Barco noted that Evolve Media Group is the first in the U.S. to order the new Barco S3-4K compact processor and EC-50 controller. Evolve Media Group is also expanding its training programs for those who rent and lease AV products.
NEW YORK — Trans-Lux noted that it has not been sold to Barco, and is not, in fact, for sale, contrary to reports posted online June 17. The company also noted that the erroneous reports, from China and elsewhere, were in the process of being retracted.
LAS VEGAS, NV – Blackmagic Design today announced that the Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement uses Blackmagic Studio Camera HDs, ATEM 1 M/E Production Studio 4K and HyperDeck Studio Pros to capture and stream all of its live productions and video archiving.
ATLANTA, GA – Blackmagic Design today announced that Austin, TX based concert film technology company TourGigs used Blackmagic Design’s ATEM switchers, HyperDeck Studio recorders and Mini Converters to provide IMAG and to record all of the acts for archiving at this year’s Shaky Knees and Shaky Boots music festivals in Atlanta, GA.
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.
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.
SYDNEY, Australia –TDC Technical Direction Company returned to Vivid Sydney from 22 May to 8 June 2015. With an opening weekend attended by more than a quarter of a million people, TDC provided video expertise in cutting edge mapping techniques and key video technology across an unprecedented 10km distance as the 18-day festival expanded into new Chatswood and Central Park precincts.