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Mapping Festival 2013

Mapping Festival 2013 is about to get under way in Geneva so get tickets NOW. There’s something for everybody- installations, VJing, and workshops on mapping and stage design from the likes of Boris Edelstein, Joanie LeMercier, and Phillipe Chaurand.

“The Mapping Festival is a multidisciplinary festival dedicated to audiovisual arts and digital cultures. As the sole broadcasting space of this magnitude in Switzerland, the festival is now also recognised internationally, and this with the richness of programming. Mapping Festival offers every year audiovisual performances, installations, clubbing parties, live performances, architectural mapping, as well as workshops and conferences.
Thanks to this unique diversity aspect, the festival is recognised throughout the world as an major event, a real experimental meeting space, for creation and exchange with its innovative thinking in the field of audiovisual arts.

Now in its eighth edition, the Mapping Festival has steadily grown and has become one of the leading events of its kind in Europe.”

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April 16, 2013 | Categories: Art Mapping, Companies/Friends, Installations, Interactive Mapping, LED, Projection Mapping, Uncategorized, video art, Video mapping Dance, Videomapping | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Barco’s DP2K-10Sx

Barco’s DP2K-10Sx looks like a great PJ for smaller venues and art-cinemas. With 9k output and 3TB of RAID 5 DCP Doremi storage, it’s listed with a max screen size of 9-10m for 2D. It looks to be in the ranks with the Solaria 1 and the Sony SRX-R515. Rumor is the street price is $35k-ish. Read on:

Tim Sinnaeve, Market Director Digital Cinema at Barco: “Going digital is a big and important step for smaller cinemas. There is a lot of concern in the industry that the transition from 35mm to digital threatens the survival of smaller, independent and arthouse cinemas that take up a unique position in the cinema landscape. Barco strongly believes that Digital Cinema also offers a unique opportunity for these cinemas to thrive, as it offers them flexibility in their programming and new business opportunities. Our new projector will make the transition easier for smaller theaters and help them grasp these new opportunities.”

The Barco DP2K-10Sx projector comes as a fully integrated, DCI-compliant projector – including a 0.69” DLP Cinema® projector, a high-grade cinema lens and an Integrated Media Server with integrated redundant storage. In it’s class, it offers the brightest and sharpest image quality, being the perfect worry-free solution to go digital with minimal hassle and risk.

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April 15, 2013 | Categories: Barco, Companies/Friends, LCD/DLP projectors, projection | Tags: , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Some time off…

Good Lord. I haven’t posted for some time because- well- I’m lazy. Actually that’s a lame excuse, but spring around my place is a crazy-busy time of year and some things take a back seat. My family and work are not in that category so posting falls by the wayside. Stay tuned though, there’s a bunch of stuff coming out of NAB week and Coachella is ramping up so I expect there will be some neato content coming. I’ve also been playing a lot with d3 and I expect I’ll post something about the release of V.11- speaking of which, I just finished a run of the broadway musical American Idiot which had a pretty killer d3 rig. It was great to be able to speak with Kirt (the op for the show) at length about the ins-and-outs of the system, which apparently was a custom rig that Ash put together for them. I’ll see if it’s OK to post some shots…..

See you all soon.

April 11, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »

QED projectionmaps BBC Comic Relief- RED Nose Day

Check out this massive work from QED. They were contracted to projectionmap the stage for the BBC broadcast of “Funny for Money”, a huge fundraiser put on by Red Nose Day to help people in need.
From their press release:

“QED Productions successfully delivered ground-breaking video mapping and stage lighting integration for Comic Relief’s seven-hour television broadcast on BBC One, by using nineteen high-brightness Christie 3-chip DLP projectors.

According to QED Director Paul Wigfield “not only was this was the most challenging indoor projection mapping ever attempted but also the entire rig had to be installed in just one day”. Read the rest of this page »

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March 25, 2013 | Categories: Christie, Companies/Friends, d3, LCD/DLP projectors, Projection Mapping, Uncategorized, Videomapping | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

A little Madmapper experiment

Such a versatile tool, our friend Madmapper. This is a fine example of how to push a little projector juuussssst about beyond it’s capabilities. It’s an old Panasonic desk PJ (800×600) on it’s side, shooting about 50deg. off-axis, onto a wall roughly 40′ away. It’s in the lobby of the building where I work and the idea is to have it on the wall for an artist’s reception. It’s our 50th anniversary coming up and we plan on displaying one work of art in each 48″ square and to give the artists a sense of the scale that it would end up being. Talk to me after we’ve hung 50 pieces of art using scaffolding and lag screws…..Lovin’ Madmapper though!

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March 13, 2013 | Categories: Panasonic, projection, Uncategorized | Tags: , , | 1 Comment »

IU Opera Akhnaten

Indiana University’s outstanding Opera department teamed up with the Indianapolis Opera to produce Philip Glass’ masterpiece “Akhnaten”, a first in many ways for opera in the midwest. It was the first time the collegiate program has staged a Glass opera, it was the first time a Glass opera has been seen in Indianapolis, and it was the first time I got to lay my hands on the venerable Barco FLM 22+. There’s an excellent article over at NUVO- worth a read…but I’ll focus mainly on the projection. I’m a huge Philip Glass fan (occasionally OD’ing on the Qatsi trilogy is a fave pastime) so I was stoked when I learned I would be the tip-of-the-spear for an actual production in the 30th anniversary year of the seminal work. For the last week I’ve been hunkered down at PFHQ breathing 98 degree air- sitting behind two of these behemoth DLP projectors. The rig was originally designed to have both projectors doing different things, but with the shot from our venue slightly (!) different than the original presenting venue, we decided to converge and let ‘em rip.


I know, you’ll all want to see gorgeous panoramic displays of the actual imagery, but all I had time for was the down-and-dirty tech porn. Sorry- you’ll just have to find it on Youtube. Playback was achieved with HogPC software on a laptop feeding Artnet to the PJ’s and to another machine (a beefy Dell Precision) running Arkaos MediaMaster Pro. Mike Schwandt was kind enough to cue the show with a Hog Playback wing, so the run was super easy and quite accurate. We shot about 120′ onto a tight-weave white scrim for an image roughly 50′w x 32′h. There were a few unique shapes…one was the scrim flown out to a trim of about 8′h x full width for a scrolling Book of the Dead. Another was an open, unfocused nebula during a Firefly effect that was quite pretty. All in all it was a piece of cake and the IU Opera was great to work with. Hope to do it again someday!

Stay tuned in May when the IO presents The Flying Dutchman, heavy on the projection!

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March 12, 2013 | Categories: Barco, LCD/DLP projectors, Opera, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »

AntiVJ Paleodictyon

PaleodictyonheadAntiVJ has once again conquered a major projection mapping on a very unique structure. Paleodictyon is shot onto the curved exterior of architect Shigeru Ban’s the Centre Pompidou Metz, France. “(The piece is) loosely inspired by the work and research of deep-sea expert Peter A. Rona, (and) abolishes notions of scale by contrasting micro-architecture with human construction. Fascinated by the marks left by unknown creatures called Paleodictyon Nodosum, he offers the hypothesis that these hexagonal structures are designed in order to cultivate bacteria. A modern day Captain Nemo, Peter A. Rona wanders relentlessly across the seabed looking to discover Read the rest of this page »

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March 11, 2013 | Categories: Art Mapping, Building Sized Projection Mapping, Building-sized, Companies/Friends, LCD/DLP projectors, projection, Projection Mapping, Uncategorized, video art | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

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