Thiemo Kastel: "Professional Lighting for TV Production" - 24.3.2011, 14:00-15:00, LeedsMet, James Graham, LTA

Our visitor Thiemo Kastel from the FH St.Poelten (Austria) will give a guest lecture about his work on "Professional Lighting for TV Production". In this talk he will show an overview on lighting technology that has been used in recent years in TV production of shows, concerts, and other live events.

Thiemo has many years of experience in live TV production in Austria and Germany. His CV is here.

Venue: Lecture Theatre A, James Graham Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley, Leeds LS6 3QS
Date/time: Thursday, 24.March 2011, 14:00 - 15:00

Visitor from FH St.Poelten: Thiemo Kastel

FH-Prof Thiemo Kastel from FH St.Poelten in Austria will visit us here at Leeds Met from 23.March - 28.March 2011.

Thiemo's research and work area is in technology for broadcast, in particular professional lighting - methods and technology for TV- and show lighting", smart live media distribution (includes live video production and distribution via internet – streaming server etc.), live virtual reality production - (greenbox production with Ventuz) and TV productions with Augmented Reality.

During his stay here at Leeds Met, Thiemo will meet with interested staff and students. A presentation about "Professional Lighting for TV Production" is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, 24.March, 14:00-15:00. Details will follow.

Thiemo's visit to Leeds Met complements a visit by Reinhold Behringer at FH St.Poelten in November 2010.

If anyone is interested to meet Thiemo during his visit here, please follow up, leave a comment or contact us.

Ben Dalton: "Art in Unusual Spaces"

Leeds Met Senior Lecturer Ben Dalton has together with other artists presented their work "in unusual places". Throughout August, Claire Bentley-Smith, Joseph Critchley, Matt Ferres, Ian Jackson, and Ben Dalton, displayed their illustrations, videos and installations in five empty shop units in the Leeds shopping Plaza.

Congratulation to this exhibit, Ben!

Rory McLeish featured in 3D World, Broadcast, Multimedia, Games & Animation Technologies

Rory McLeish, one of our Leeds Met Associate Senior Lecturers, has received praise for his work in Games Design by the magazine 3D World, Broadcast, Multimedia, Games & Animation Technologies. In this four page feature entitled 'Effective Concept Prototyping Tips' which runs alongside 'The making of Toy Story 3' there are many top-tips from Rory. He shares his knowledge for creating outstanding creature and vehicle designs in games production with the exploration of sketches, sharpening up those compositions by avoiding image distortion, rendering and layering in Photoshop, and how to present the final character model.

Congratulations, Rory!

EchoChroma VI Concert

The Music, Sound & Performance Group will once again be performing electroacoustic music with a 14-channel surround-sound diffusion system.
The evening will present laptop performances, live acoustic sets, multi-channel works, and original music by undergraduate and postgraduate award-winning Innovation North staff and students.
The event is FREE to all and early arrival is recommended due to limited seating. Join us on Tuesday 27 April, 5pm, in the Jubilee Room, James Graham Building, Headingley Campus.

Tom Jackson: Photographic Exhibitions

Our staff member Tom Jackson is displaying his photographic collection of images "Converging Light" in two exhibitions. The collection features images from Hong Kong, Poland, Dubai (and even one from Leeds!).

These are Tom's first solo exhibitions, so your support would be greatly appreciated. If you're in Leeds town centre during the following dates, please drop in and take a look. The first exhibition is open now!

April 12th - May 8th
The Carriageworks
Millennium Square, Leeds

www.carriageworkstheatre.org.uk/find_us_unid80ba_page.aspx
(Head up to the second floor bar area!)

May 15th - June 26th
The Roast
Whitehall Riverside, Leeds

www.theroast.co.uk

There will be an opening event for the exhibition at The Roast but the date for this has not been confirmed yet.

Echochroma V Concert

Yesterday members of the Leeds Met Innovation North Music and Sound Processing (MSP) Group performed a concert of electro-acoustic music in the Jubilee Room of the James Graham Building, Headingley. A new set of surround speakers provided the adequate sound level for enjoying the electro-acoustic compositions that were performed in multi-channel surround sound.

The first half of the program contained music by staff and students from Leeds Met and the Leeds College of Music:
Nikos Stavropoulos: Nyctinasty
Stephen Kilpatrick: Oceana
Alasdair Auchincloss: Untitled 1
Adam Stansbie: Parenthesis
Dale Perkins: Cuckoo-borough

The second half of the concert was performed at the mixing desk by guest composer Manuella Blackburn:
Manuella Blackburn: Vista Points
Sam Salem: Poor but sexy in Berlin
Diana Simpson: Papyrus
David Berezan: Frosty