Feeling flushed
Video mapping at the National Arts Festival
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The LightingWarehouse:
The National Arts Festival (NAF) is Africa’s biggest
annual celebration of the arts. It’s hosted in Graha-
mstown, a small university city in the Eastern Cape,
and takes place over eleven days every winter.
This year, from 3 to 13 July, 225 000 people at-
tended some 2 800 performances in 50 venues scat-
tered across Grahamstown and its surrounds and,
once again, Electrosonic SA was a proud sponsor.
In the past Electrosonic SA has supplied lighting
equipment and technical training, but this year, to
celebrate the festival’s 40
th
birthday, it decided to do
something special. Recently the company became
the sole distributor of Green Hippo’s Media Servers,
and the Festival presented the ideal opportunity to
show what these servers could do.
The Monument, located on a hilltop overlooking
Grahamstown, is the headquarters of the Festival. It
is a superbly equipped fa-
cility and a hub of creative
activity, especially during
the NAF. Since its opening
in 1974, it has inspired art-
ists to stretch their imagi-
nations and embrace a
future of hope, which is
exactly what it did for the
intrepid crews of TechRig
and Electrosonic SA.
Techrig is a technical solutions agency and
provider of audio-visual (AV), lighting, sound and
structures. It has a reputation for delivering the
highest level of expertise in a global arena. It is
also the proud owner of the only Barco HDQ-2K40
projectors in Africa.This 3-chip DLP projector boasts
40 000 lumens light output and 2 K resolution. It was
a perfect fit for the Green Hippo, which offers two
full HD outputs in pan mode. Only the best equip-
ment would do for the task of throwing an image
from 100 m away onto the town-facing wall of The
Monument, which is 80 m across and 20 m high.
The content of the light show, which ran from 6
to 11 pm every night, was programmed onto the
Green Hippo HD server using theTimeline product
feature. The projection was visible throughout the
whole of Grahamstown, showcasing the immense
power of the projectors, and the fidelity of the
Green Hippo server.The show fast became a talking
point, and contributed to general festivities.
“The NAF is incredibly grateful to TechRig and
Electrosonic SA for making the project happen. It’s
a great privilege to work with such talented profes-
sionals on this quite extraordinary Festival,” says
NAF Technical Director Nicci Spalding.
Electrosonic SA:
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