Artist, activist and curator Lisa Kirk features fog effects created with Look Solutions‘ Viper NT fog generator in her latest project, REVOLUTION!, a multimedia installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art located in Long Island City, NY. Consistently challenging white box aesthetics and institutional elitism with democratic verve, Kirk‘s work has evolved as a series of scripted events and their ephemeral fall-out. Her projects have served to dramatize a shift in focus to the significance of social rituals.

REVOLUTION! began as a fragrance developed in collaboration with Symrise perfumers, based on interviews with journalists, activists, and political radicals who responded to the question, “What is the smell of revolution?” Using the resulting fragrance, which blends the odor of smoke, gasoline, tear gas, burnt rubber and decaying flesh, Kirk addresses the issue of contemporary luxury branding with interactive perfume displays, ad campaigns, a mock front-page story in The Baltimore Sun and the organization of the Revolutionary Knitting Circle. more

Sight & Sound Theatres, a company which combines story, song and spectacular staging to bring biblical stories to life, is employing an inventory of Clay Paky lights to visualize and dramatize the epic shows it produces at its Strasburg, Pennsylvania Millennium Theatre. Clay Paky fixtures will also be part of the lighting complement at Sight & Sound‘s new Branson, Missouri theater which is still under construction. more

London, UK Telex Communications (UK) Ltd can add another major UK broadcaster to their impressive client list: Independent Television News has installed RTS intercom for critical communications at their Gray’s Inn Road headquarters in London. Stage 1 has already begun with the installation of a 176 square ADAM matrix system for ITN’s master control room. Providing facilities for some 6 studios 16 edit suites, graphics and content managers, master control is the hub of the ITN operation. As a live news broadcaster, ITN takes feeds from numerous outside broadcasts every day, so an essential part of their intercom requirement was a system to route incoming and outgoing lines at the touch of a button. The new RTS ARP (Audio Routing Panel) developed for ITN achieves this with simplicity and elegance, allowing speedy switching with visual confirmation and reverse interrogation of routes throughout the complex. more

Robert Trent Jones II-designed course with architecturally-acclaimed clubhouse places highest emphasis on littlest detail: requiring advanced system design and ultra-effective, highly reliable audio technology.

BEAVERTON, OREGON, November 27, 2007 — Acknowledged as the preeminent centerpiece of the Four Seasons Golf Club Dubai Festival City, Al Badia Golf Course is a testament to perfection in every detail from golf course design to AV system design. The new clubhouse, itself a work of design genius, features advanced audio distribution through more than 52 zones in a system designed and installed by BCL Business Communications LLC. The systems features Biamp AudiaFLEX CM module at its epicentre to create the optimum decentralized audio network for the club and grounds. more

BEAVERTON OREGON, November 29, 2007 — Demonstrating how systems integrators can provide restaurant and hospitality outlets with audio systems that advance the atmospherics and branding of an enterprise, leading UK integrator Blaydon Communications recently deployed Biamp® Nexia® digital sound processors at the new Pan-Asian restaurant ‘Fat Buddha‘ in Durham City. The AV design for the £1.4m, 220-seat restaurant needed to be visually discrete, highly intelligible and scalable for future expansion. more

Middleton, WI- Intelix LLC, U.S. manufacturer of audio/video equipment and software, recently announced the release of the AVO-A4-WP-F wallplate balun, which distributes two channels of high-fidelity stereo audio up to 2,500 feet over standard twisted pair cable, such as Cat 5 or Cat 6.

The front panel of the AVO-A4-WP-F features four gold-plated female RCA connectors on a white decora face-plate. The rear panel features an RJ45 connector and optional grounding screw. The installed unit fits in a standard depth wall-box. more

Vista Systems‘ Spyder and four Christie HD6K three-chip DLP® projectors are at the heart of a new videowall at Qwest‘s Network Operations Center (NOC) in Arlington, Virginia. Matrix Display Systems of Boulder, Colorado, which had previously worked on Qwest‘s executive boardroom and corporate auditorium in Denver, Colorado revived the existing 6 x 6 NOC videowall, which had not been used for the past few years. more

Highly accomplished filmmaker, poet, visual artist, performance artist and composer, Laurie Anderson incorporates Eventide H8000FW Ultra-Harmonizer effects processor into her pallette of sounds for her new recording, Homeland more

Take 15 “live” dinosaurs, add in elements of escapism, excitement and factual information, and what‘s the missing piece of the puzzle? If you answered “special effects”, you‘ve nailed it down. And so have the talented folks at Illinois- and California-based theatrical lighting company Upstaging, Inc., who used Look Solutions‘ water-based Unique2 Hazer for the new theatrical production WALKING WITH DINOSAURS – The Live Experience North American tour. more

West Paterson, NJ…… FSR announced the new Twister 2 CAT-5 Systems. The audio/video Twister 2 is capable of sending high resolution video and stereo audio over long distances on CAT-5 cable with an optional skew compensation feature.. The RS-232 Data/IR Twister 2 is designed for applications requiring the transport of RS-232 data and /or IR control data over long distances on CAT-5 Cable. Select either a sleek one-gang decora style unit or a functional brick style unit. more