Curated Digital Art Streamer Blackdove Launches Pro AV Dealer Program February 14, 2024 by Super User The digital art platform Blackdove has formally launched a dealer program that it hopes gets the pro AV “channel” talking up, selling and implementing streaming artworks for video walls and other displays in commercial environments. The company has been announcing partnerships here and there since it first came on the scene, such as one last …
Clever NYC CampaignCombines Full-Time Mural With Projection-Mapped Animations After Sunset February 13, 2024 by Super User Projection-mapping when done well can be quite awesome, but using that technology for advertising and special events has always been somewhat constrained by projection’s greatest adversary – natural light. So I was intrigued and impressed by an effort in New York that blends a colorful full-time mural for a brand in a high profile space …
Barcelona’s Iconic Casa Batlló To Again Be Projection-Mapped Next Weekend Ahead Of ISE January 17, 2024 by Super User If you are into projection mapping and going to Barcelona for ISE, you might want to put this free public show on your schedule if you get in next weekend, ahead of the show’s formal start date. From ISE’s PR: To commemorate the 20th anniversary of ISE and the 200th anniversary of Passeig de Gràcia, …
ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profile: Meet The Dynamic Content People At Screenfeed January 16, 2024 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is now two weeks out, and Sixteen:Nine is again doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixers it has been doing since forever. The sold out event happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs of the evening, including tapas and an open bar. I like to thank …
Almost 3,000 Computer-Controlled Tiles Mimic Sea’s Motions In This Giant Kinetic Sculpture January 16, 2024 by Super User This is not digital signage, and more an alternative to the big LED visuals that have been schemed into newly-built experiential environments in the last few years. Like big video walls, this project uses real-time data to drive the visual experience. It’s a giant kinetic sculpture that encompasses a grand staircase on a new cruise …
Alfalite Bundles Digital Art Library, Media Player Into New AlfaArt Turnkey Video Wall Solution January 16, 2024 by Super User One of the ongoing challenges of selling big LED video displays into corporate and private spaces is coming up with a plan that not only factors in the cost and integration challenges of the physical screen, but also what’s going to be on it. The Spanish firm Alfalite, which bills itself as the only European …
LED Mainstreamed: Chicago Cocktail Lounge Uses Fine Pitch Video Wall To Drive Experience January 10, 2024 by Super User New and different evidence of how LED is mainstreaming as a display and experiential option – a cocktail lounge in Chicago with a fine pitch LED video wall. It is for a bar called Valedor and involves four 55-inch LED cabinets tiled together – four wide and two high – to create the video wall, …
Ladies And Gentleman, Elvis Is Coming Back To The Building … Virtually, In London Later This Year January 4, 2024 by Super User Via AV Interactive … Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis may have left the building and planet, but he’s coming back … sorta. Hat Tip to AV Interactive for reporting that Elvis Presley is being virtually raised from the dead to perform as a hologram-ish projected entity at a new immersive attraction targeted to open later this …
Hologram-ish Santa Offers Gift Ideas To Holiday Travelers At A Toronto Airport January 4, 2024 by Super User I’ve not seen a lot of real-world retail uses for those big transparent LCD shower stall-like displays marketed as holograms, but here’s an interesting pop-up example of one used during the Christmas season in the T3 terminal of Toronto’s main airport. Retail operator Paradies Lagardère – which has a big footprint in airports, hotels and …
Mormon Church Books Domination Campaign Across 27 Times Square LED Screens December 27, 2023 by Super User Brands sometime book domination campaigns that sync up multiple LED spectacular displays in New York’s Times Square, and there are periodic late evening takeovers for public digital art on those screens, but here is something quite different: a Christmas-themed message across 27 displays – planned, booked and delivered by the Mormon church. The Church …