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CPL invests in new projectors for Arcadia London event

Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) has invested in six Barco UDX-4K 31,000 lumen laser projectors which were deployed on their first event at Arcadia London in May 2018. The two day alt. culture festival, music and performance extravaganza celebrated the 10th anniversary of the birth of the Arcadia concept and was staged in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, with the world’s largest Spider at the hub of the performance action.

CPL has been involved with Arcadia since 2013 when the 50 tonne Spider - the conceptual brainchild of Pip Rush and Bert Cole crafted from reimagined military hardware and other recycled industrial waste - first landed at Glastonbury festival.

For the last few UK appearances of the arachnid, CPL has been part of a production team delivering projections onto both sides of the three legs, which are fundamental structural elements of this 360 degree visual and sonic spectacle.

The new projectors arrived just in time at CPL’s West Midlands warehouse for the London event, which was built around Arcadia’s ‘Metamorphosis’ experience, a combination of engineering, acrobatics, visuals and sonic excellence. The festival also included a line-up of other electronic talent, with all the main action taking place in and around the Spider.

CPL’s team was project managed by George Oakey who was joined by Jack Sykes and Robin Emery. They worked closely with Arcadia’s production manager Dorian Cameron-Marlow and Tom Wall who co-ordinated all the video mapping.

Fitted with TLD 2.8-4.5 lenses, each projected image was mapped onto the front and back of the Spider’s legs via Arcadia’s AI media server which stored and replayed all the video content. Most of it was colouring and texturing effects which bring additional definition and depth to the legs so they pop out, while the rest of the Spider is illuminated by lighting rigged on the body, legs and lighting towers positioned around the performance field.

The projectors were located on six custom weatherised scaffolding towers built around the perimeter of the field-of-play/performance space as in previous years, with a throw distance of approximately 40 metres.

CPL used six of their Connex 2-way fibre DVI/RJ45 fibre optic converter transmission systems which enabled both the data carrying the content to the machines and the projector control network and signals including on/off, colour settings, contrast, geometry control and other monitoring and feedback to run down the same line.

For the first time CPL also had remote control over the projectors using Barco’s Projector Toolset software, developed to help manage the projector parameters from any location, either through the network or an RS232 connection.

This was helpful during the video content mapping process, allowing George Oakey and the team to walk the field with a laptop and adjust the projectors from the right spots to see the full detail and exactly how and what tweaks needed to be applied. Projector power to each tower was a dedicated 32A single phase supply.

(Photos: Luke Taylor/Ben Daure/ShotAway)

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