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Working closely with Imagination's production director Matt Rose and production manager Matt Francis, PRG XL Video supplied a range of key event technology including video screens and control systems, lighting and rigging, for Make the Future London incorporating Shell Eco-marathon Europe, which took place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London, UK.

The annual Shell Eco-marathon events take place across Asia, the Americas and Europe. This year the European event was part of Make the Future London - a festival of ideas and innovation. The events challenge young engineers to design, build and drive energy efficient vehicles that go as far as possible on the least amount of fuel. The student teams compete in a number of categories on

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Founded in 2002 by Tristian Bickerton, The Wireless Works operates alongside CT at many prestigious events including Wimbledon, Glastonbury and the Olympic Games. The two businesses also service many common clients in the wider corporate events market and have a shared ethos of delivering high end specialist technical services, driven by innovative people and best in class technology.

The development and recent launch of CT's Integrated Networks division has created new synergies and opportunities in an increasingly complex and core area of technical event delivery. In the immediate future, the business will continue to operate just

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This recent expansion signals the company's significant growth outside the UK and the need to increase the administration team to meet this demand. Both Loyola and Valentina are multilingual. They will work closely on a day to day basis with export sales managers and export customers.

"As our Export business continues to grow, we need to ensure that all areas of the business have the support necessary to deliver the high level of service that our customers have come to expect from us," said Keith Dutch, sales & operations director. "Loyola and Valentina are great additions to the team with their sales admin expertise and excellent language skills."

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The equipment supplied by Video Design has been slightly expanded this year, "We've added a 1.1m-wide vertical wrap around strip to the stage left wing to improve the view from the VIP area," explained Leinster. This well-reasoned attention to detail illuminates the bigger question, what do performers actually do with this generous expanse of video screen?

"The band are very energetic and rock their show, but they are not really a video band in the sense that on tour they don't have a scrap of LED on stage." Such was the conundrum outlined by Steve Price, video director for Mumford & Sons, one of the half dozen acts that headlined

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Part of the company's ongoing investment strategy has seen Evans bolster its already extensive product inventory to expand its rental stock and offer event organisers improved energy efficiency, the latest technology and enhanced performance.

This new investment includes the addition of Panasonic PT-RZ12k 3chip DLP laser projectors with WUXGA 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution. Not only do these offer reduced power consumption, but they produce exceptional picture quality with sharp images and vibrant colours. Evans has also bolstered its stock with new Samsung DM65E 65 inch LED displays, along with Nexo ID24s compact speakers, which can be used as part of a full-range system, or as a single unit in difficult spaces.

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Commissioned by technical planning and show direction specialist Niyu, Maxin10sity brought its skill and expertise to Audi's Late Light Show - an exclusive videomapping event for Audi employees and the community surrounding its Ingolstadt, Germany HQ with a spectacular 10-minute show running every evening over six days from 25-30 May 2016.

The Late Light Show set the stage for the world premiere unveiling of the Audi A5/S5 Coupe, which was celebrated with a further bespoke five-minute mapping; a visual representation of the evolution of the Audi Coupe from its inception through to the brand new models.

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The six-month trial involved the conservation charity's regional team in the North, who regularly travel between five different hubs, zig-zagging to meetings from Newcastle in the East to Manchester in the West.

Following their introduction into the project, Panasonic delivered large 4K 55" TVs to a number of Trust regional office locations, linking them into a Video Conferencing service. The regional team were then able to set up a video conferencing facility linking the various locations very quickly and easily,

Darren Belton, who was involved in the trial said, "Not only was the audio, size and quality of the screen superb but video conferencing saved me driving over 200 miles, dramatically reducing my impact on the environment.

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Many of Barco's technologically advanced AV solutions have contributed to the success of Brazil's most high-profile public venues and events, as well as supported the development of corporate and commercial enterprises in the region.

Projects that are helping to fuel the transportation, utilities, and healthcare infrastructures serving the country's 200m residents include: control room visual collaboration platforms help safeguard and manage efficient travel; best-in-class cinema projection and immersive sound systems enrich the movie-going experience; and innovative diagnostic, surgical and clinical medical display systems ensure o

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Mirror II - Distance is part of the "Mirror" project, a series devised to provide insight into global communities that experience distancing and objectification. It is inspired by observations of the Diplomatic Enclave in Islamabad and features two Pakistani guards standing and watching over the expat compounds they are stationed over. The two men observe each other across a distance as they listen to the visitors, the experts and the specialists discuss Pakistan, its people and its future.

The art installation comprises two VOID installations by GBvi,

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"This will be our second tour with David and his shows are really focused on the music and the storytelling of his life," says lighting designer Gordon Droitcour. "To make sure we are supporting him best as an artist, the lighting design has to be dynamic for both high

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A total of 66 Christie Boxer 4K30 3DLP projectors were installed around the fourth level of the stadium to claim the biggest real-time tracking 3D projection mapping show in the world for this National Day Parade (NDP) in Singapore. A slew of bright and vibrant visuals projected onto the surfaces of the two moving structures by the Boxer 4K30s greatly enhanced the scale and excitement of the celebrations. This marks the debut of Christie Boxer 4K30s at the National Stadium since the completion of this state-of-the-art sports facility in 2014

Adrian Goh, group manag

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Commenting, Mark Trevena, training manager of tvONE said, "Our CTS accredited hands-on sessions remain popular, but we hear from clients that their time is becoming more and more precious. The tvONE Training Academy Studio provides a solution that maintains the high quality of presentation and content our partners, installers and end users expect, but provides new formats and forms of content that they can access instantly online at a time that suits them."

In order to deliver the high standard of presentation that the Pro AV industry expects from tvONE, the studio is fitted out with nearly £100,000

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"We are very excited to be associated with BMD", says ImageCue CEO Bill Hewlett. "Their animated artwork for musical theatre scenic projections is stunning, and the way they build cue-able content is a perfect match with ImageCue."

ImageCue allows BMD's scenic projections to be played back on cue from a standard lighting controller using only 12 channels of DMX512. Both ImageCue and BMD have been featured in Richard Cadena's Video Matters column in LSi magazine - ImageCue in November 2015

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When Macy's began a new initiative to transform a retail location into the 'Store of the Future', they approached Gaiam with an opportunity to create a completely new retail environment meant to achieve a higher level of customer engagement. Understanding exactly how they wanted to capture the attention of Macy's shoppers, Gaiam began working with Reflect who chose to incorporate FLEXLite NXG 3.9mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX into the new retail environment.

"As a fitness and wellness brand partner of Macy's, we were very excited about the opportunity to take part in their technology renovation and feature a spa

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For Singapore's National Day Parade, VYV and partner Hexogon Solution provided a 360-degree real-time tracked 3D projection mapping for two scenes - a large moving boulder that was to be split into eight pieces, and a floating city made up of 15 collapsible fabric towers totalling 99 objects, which stands 20m tall and 60m in diameter.

Hexogon Solution deployed a total of 40 tracking cameras, 66 projectors each producing 30,000 lumens, 250 VYV Copernic tracking emitters and 12 VYV Photon servers for this task.

Accurate tracking, quick and painless automatic calibration and dynamic edge blending were all essential ingredients to the success of this record-shatte

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CPL project manager Simon Haydon explains that this screen was chosen because as a high quality HD indoor product and in keeping with the company's commitment to stocking premium brands, ROE is one of the best known and most widely used brands in the European rental and staging markets, and has gained a great reputation for being practical and innovative.

"We purchased it as a versatile all-round solution that will be perfect for the range of shows and events we service," confirms Simon.

Robust magnetised magnesium alloy frames and bumper-bars with clamps that hold

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The 38th Bristol International Balloon Fiesta took place at Ashton Court Estate and attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors and over 100 hot air balloons from across the globe. With mass ascents, Nightglows, Cirque Bijou performances and aerial displays from The Parabatix Flying Display team, it's the largest event of its kind in Europe.

Bristol based Evans Audio Visual Staging was selected by Richmond Event Management (REM) to design, manufacture and install a giant 12m x 3m Bristol sign, which was situated to the west of the balloon launch field. During the nightglows this sign was illuminated by Bristol based Utopium, to showcase the blue and green of the new Bris

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Each year the festival takes place in Cherry Hinton, Cambridge UK, and attracts the very best folk music artists from around the world. The festival site includes a range of stages arranged around a central area where many audience members choose to sit.

This year, the main stage tent saw performances from artists including Christy Moore, Gogol Bordello, Imelda May, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Glen Hansard. Ensuring the audiences had a great view of the main stage performances, two LED screens, each 3.6 x 2.4m, were located either side of the entrance to the tent.

PRG XL Video senior account manager, Paul Wood, specified ROE Visual MC-7T Blackface LED for the screens. The product is IP65 rate

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No sooner had theONE atmospheric generator arrived, it immediately joined American blues rocker, Joe Bonamassa, as he toured the UK and Europe this summer paying tribute to three of the legends of the British Blues, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Post tour, theONE will feature at various prestigious events Adlib is involved in after the summer festival season.

For Adlib's lighting & video general manager, Mike Docksey, theONE was the only choice. He explains, "We felt it was the most suitable product on the market with a good reputation to add to our armoury for large scale live events. As we constantly grow our inventory and the scale of events which we unde

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The 12 x Panasonic PT-DW17K2 projectors have been purchased by the Tattoo and are running for the first time during the 2016 programme which launched last week showcasing another exciting and eclectic mix of military pageantry, music, dance, technical wizardry and special effects which will enthral audiences from all over the globe.

The increase in brightness and clarity compared to the PIGI film projectors which had served the event for the last 11 years is substantial.

As Ross explains, "When the Tattoo first explored the medium of

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"Although we have worked remotely with DWR for a few years now, it was our first physical contact with South Africa," said Marco. "I had a feeling that we were in for a nice surprise and indeed we were overwhelmed by the warm welcome and hand of friendship from everyone. I was thrilled I could take a day at the end of the trip to explore the beauty of Cape Town. All we can think of is now is when can we plan to come back."

A day's training was hosted in Johannesburg and presented by Benjamin Bauwens and Marco and both were encouraged by the good attendance. "I took a group picture of everyone to bring back to our o

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Now traveling across the United States, the Drake Summer Sixteen tour represents a massive undertaking in audiovisual theatrics, with the design and programming expertly directed by Pavelo and GP-SK. The artist came to the table with some highly imaginative show elements in mind, requiring a mammoth production effort: an expansive stage and set design, an 86' curved video wall, and a Kinetic system comprising hundreds of custom LED spheres.

Pavelo specified a significant amount of Barco and High End Systems gear to augment the exten