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Student Center at Clarkson University Equipped with Christie MicroTiles
POTSDAM, NY — The amphitheater at
Clarkson University’s Student Center has
been equipped with a video wall from
Video Visions made with Christie Micro-
Tiles. Students voted to increase their own
activity fees to help fund the center, and
wanted to make it both welcoming and
technologically advanced.
The wall combines an array of 80 Christie
MicroTiles arranged in a 10 wide by 8
high configuration, media servers, Crestron
touch panel and 12 inputs (with expansion
potential for 15), delivering an AV experience
that gives students information about
campus events, sports feeds such as hockey
games, live music from the campus radio
station, and four HD television feeds. The
installation is also used by students for video
games, and is used to create interesting
backdrops during live performances such
as comedy nights or concerts.
“Our school is very technology-focused,
so it was important for us to have
state-of-the-art multimedia,” said Kevin
Lynch, chief information officer at Clarkson.
“We’re especially pleased that our design
students can use the wall as a canvas
for their own work. It gives them a learning
experience on the latest in digital display
technology. It’s also easy enough to program,
so that anyone with good laptop
skills can do it.”
The installation begins
on the main floor of
the amphitheater, and
rises upward. It is easily
seen throughout the center,
including from some
opera-style boxes at the
side. Students check the
Christie MicroTiles video
wall regularly as they walk
from one class to the next,
and officials sometimes
joke that the content is so
compelling it’s hard to get
people back to their work
or studies.
Clarkson University’s student center amphitheater
Impact Video
Provides Displays For
Nickelodeon’s Kids
Choice Awards
2011 Kids Choice Awards
BURBANK, CA — Impact Video was called
upon to provide the Nickelodeon TV Network
with large screen video displays for the
2011 Kids Choice Awards. This year’s show was
broadcast live on April 2, 2011 from the Galen
Center at USC in downtown Los Angeles,
where talent from across the entertainment
industry gathered to honor their youngest
fans. The kids were in control as their voting
across all categories determined the evening’s
winners.
Production designer Steve Bass of Los
Angeles, CA based Hasbas Entertainment, explained
that the set design was “inspired by
Japanese pop consumerism. The bright lights
and bold colors you might see in Tokyo. Video
content is such an important element in communicating
the stylistic frenzy of that market.”
The primary video elements included
three 13-by-24-foot double-stacked Barco
20,000 lumen HD rear projection displays, a
Panasonic HD Astrovision LED screen (15.76
by 36.68 feet) and another one measuring
7.88-by-13.1-feet, and seven columns of
19.73-by-6.57-foot Martin LC 2140 LED displays.
Additional video elements included
elation 1024 SMD LED panels mounted to circular
trusses and eight Panasonic 42-inch HD
Plasma displays mounted to podiums on the
multi-level performance stage.
All of the video displays integrated a myriad
of video elements that allowed the Nickelodeon
Network to make great use of the multiple
screen elements for presenter packages
and video playback during live performances.
All video screens were used to either playback
awards packages, display video backgrounds
for changing set looks and show logos or the
live image magnification of musical performances.
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