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Scharff Weisberg Systems
Integration, in collaboration with Batwin + Robin
Productions, has completed work on the new Going Global
section of The National Museum of American History’s
America On The Move exhibit.
America on The Move explores the role of transportation
in American history. It portrays communities wrestling
with the changes that new transportation networks
brought, showing how cities change, suburbs expand, and
farms and factories become part of regional, national
and international economies. The Going Global exhibit
portrays people as they travel for work and pleasure and
as they move to new homes. The strains of the Red Hot
Chili Peppers, Ozomatli, and Jurassic 5 and the voices
of L.A. residents create the ambience of the final,
L.A.-focused installation. With multiple video screens,
music, voices and a large satellite image of Los
Angeles, a mix of sounds and images puts visitors at the
center of the vibrant international city.
Scharff Weisberg installed three
video "clusters" in the Going Global exhibit, each of
which is made up of a Pioneer PDP-503CMX 50" plasma
display, two Sharp LC-20E1UB 20" video LCD TVs and four
Marshal V-LCD8-PRO 8" LCD monitors. They all receive
content from TASCAM D6500 DVD players via S-video
signals (component to the plasmas). Also for each
cluster, audio is delivered to two Turbosound TCS-30
speakers from its respective DVD player and ambient
music from a custom-authored CD is brought to two
additional TCS-30s for a total of eight speakers.
A LED sign from Sunrise Systems (spanning horizontally
47 feet across the tops of all three clusters and
conforming to the contour of the curved curtain wall) is
used to deliver supporting archived headlines and facts
that coincide with the content of the audio/video
programs.
Medialon Manager show control software was programmed
with system-status feedback to run all operations of the
show including lighting. There are 600 lighting cues
stored on the show-control PC and once they are called
upon from the show's timeline, pass through an Artistic
License Etherlink which then sends DMX information to
the dimmers via CAT-5e cable. In addition, the show
control user interface provides an LED “Special Mode
Control” where custom text can be entered and sent to
the LED sign for special events.
A quality control system was also implemented so that
the museum staff can monitor all audio and video sources
from the AV control room in the basement. This is
accomplished with a Panasonic WJ-FS-416 16x16 video
multiplexer, a Link Electronics PAF-820 audio switcher
and remote PSR-824 audio controller and a Wohler HRS-1S
audio monitor.
Scharff Weisberg Project Manager
David Girgenti commented, “It’s great to work with
Batwin + Robin since their content always gets the best
out of the technology. This installation looks and
sounds great and is the perfect conclusion to the
America On The Move Exhibit.” |
