MULTIMEDIA & AV IT’S A WRAP A
new exhibition at The British Museum unveils new discoveries from CT scanning, which tell the different
stories of eight individuals who were mummified thousands of years ago. The mummies selected for the Ancient lives, new discoveries exhibi- tion cover a period of more than 4,000 years, from the Predynastic period to the Christian era, from sites in Egypt and the Sudan. The emphasis will be on revealing different aspects of living and dying in the ancient Nile valley through these eight individuals and also through contextual objects from the collection such as amulets, canopic jars, musical instruments and items of food. Holovis worked with the museum’s
technical staff to install a mix of screens and projectors. These bring the exhibition’s messages to life, creating engagement while being empathetic with the real life stories being told.
The new exhibition tells the different stories of eight people who were mummified thousands of years ago
Ancient lives, new discoveries
follows the successful British Museum international touring exhibition Mummy:
the inside story. For this, Holovis created a 3D 4K-resolution theatre that immersed the audience in the virtual unwrapping of a 3,000-year old mummy. From 2011 to 2013 this exhibition
travelled to venues in Virginia, Brisbane, Mumbai and Singapore, accompanied and supported technically by Holovis throughout the tour.
GOING LIVE T
he ability to make instant, last- minute decisions for live events was the main requirement at The Works Theater at Carnegie
Science Center in Pittsburgh when it recently needed an equipment upgrade. The centre is dedicated to educating,
entertaining and inspiring through programmes in science, sports and technology. To showcase demonstra- tions in The Works Theater’s industrial setting, Alcorn McBride’s V16 Pro top- of-the-line controller was chosen. Doug DeHaven, AV specialist/robotics
at Carnegie Science Center, paired the robust hardware of the V16 Pro with
easy programming of QLab software as the multimedia cueing platform. “Our theatre has a lot of hardware,” he says. “We have a 100-year-old 10ft (3m)- tall, 1.2 million volt Tesla Coil that we need to control. We also have a liquid nitrogen fog machine that takes a lot of control to make it work right. Plus two pan-tilt-zoom cameras and eight video projectors for the screens that ring the theatre. We need to run their content and turn the projectors on and off.” DeHaven specified, designed and
installed the system and infrastructure and programmed the V16 Pro and touch interface. He also designed the
communication protocol between the devices and systems. “We not only wanted the reliability and interfacing capability of Alcorn equipment but also the ability to make realtime show control changes for live events – we have multiple different shows in one space through the day,” says DeHaven.
“I found a way to marry Alcorn and QLab products to accomplish this.” l
The centre is dedicated to educating and entertaining through science, sports and technology programmes
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