What to expect from Durham Marenghi at The ARC Show 2012
As The ARC Show Curator, Durham will transform areas of the exhibition, showcasing the true power of lighting design as well as creating a new experience at The ARC Show 2012.
There will be theatrical lighting of the venue and several unique contributions and displays from leading lighting manufacturers and innovators, truly an event not to be missed by all those with an interest in creative Lighting Design and the products used to realise it's creation.
About Durham:
As well as live event productions, Durham has excelled at permanent installations with his Architectural Lighting Company, Lumitect. Focusing on a range of locations, from the Visitor's Centre at the Nuerburgring to The Space Centre in Bremen Germany for which Durham won the International Illumination Design Award.
As a figure head within the lighting industry, Durham is a member of The Society of British Theatre Designers, The Society of Television Lighting Directors, The Association of Lighting Designers and Equity and is an Honorary Fellow of Rose Bruford College.
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Lighting the 2011 New Year’s Eve Fireworks display
Durham created the lighting for the recent New Year's Eve light and fire display at the London Eye in collaboration with Kimbolton Fireworks and the creative and production teams at Jack Morton Worldwide...
"This is the seventh year in which I have had the pleasure of lighting this event and this year we introduced new technology in the form of the weatherproof Arena Color fixtures and high power searchlights installed by Stage Electrics and supplied by ELP/Syncrolite producing a remarkable highlighting of this iconic London landmark. Lighting is used to compliment and enhance the firework display as well as creating an exciting and dynamic atmosphere of anticipation before the midnight chimes of Big Ben to entertain the 250,000 people gathered in Westminster to witness the event and the millions who enjoy the broadcast on the BBC"
Durham Marenghi, 2012
Also included in the NYE Fireworks: Pharos Architectural
This is the sixth New Year’s Eve that Pharos has been involved, ever since the London Eye lighting refit in 2006. In the afternoon of 31st December, the discrete Pharos systems are uploaded with special programming for the event, their internal clocks are synchronised with a GPS timecode receiver, and then they’re left to perform by themselves. Programming is accurate to a hundredth of a second and is in step with the ChamSys lighting consoles and the fireworks controller.
Naturally the focus is on the breathtaking midnight sequence but the show design includes lighting for the whole evening during the build up to the celebrations. Pharos Technical Product Manager Simon Hicks has programmed the Pharos systems for Durham for the last five years. He explains, “This is the time when we can really show off what we can do with the Eye - for the rest of the year the lighting is mostly static with a few subtle effects to mark certain occasions.”
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