A Radical Lighting solution for Futurist project

Taking the theme of collaboration and the sharing of resources to win business literally, Futurist’s Michael Lister teamed up with Radical Lighting’s Emma Long and Simon Carter to present a completely different conceptual approach to lighting the Yorkshire Forward Business Conference.
They took the bold move of deciding to light and create a visual environment for the whole event using entirely video and LED light-sources.
The event – lit by Futurist for several years - was staged at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate.
Lister explained: “The event was to encourage Yorkshire SMEs to work together and pitch for multimillion pound business contracts for companies like Rolls Royce, Microsoft and the NHS. I thought it an ideal opportunity to put the theory into practice”.
He proposed that Wakefield-based Futurist and Bradford-based Radical Lighting combined energies and their sense of technical adventure to produce some innovative lighting.
The lighting rig included 44 James Thomas PixelLine battens, 24 RGB PixelPAR fixtures and 6 of JTE’s new daylight white PixelPARs.
The projection elements included three Barco G5 projectors, run conventionally for video projection on stage. Two Sanyo XF40 projectors were used for displaying 2 wide static displays on the walls along with two Barco G8’s, plus two G5s fitted with Catalyst mirror heads.
The LED fixtures were run through one of Radical’s PixelDrive control systems, and the six projectors through two of their new RADLite NG1 digital media servers, all triggered from a WholeHog II console.
The G8s and the G5s with the Catalyst heads were rigged onto a box truss above the middle of the hall. Sources were supplied from the two RADlites using library footage plus custom-created Yorkshire Forward content produced by Mezzo Studios.
These were combined with 32 PixelLines and 12 RGB PixelPARs, and used to illuminate the conference floor and delegate’s tables below.
The walk-in state was created with the Catalyst heads and static projectors on the centre box truss running video content mimicked by the PixelLines and PARs using PixelDrive, giving the room a co-ordinated look and feel.
Futurist, www.futurist.co.uk.
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