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News Release from: Amplicon | Subject: LCD monitors
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 May 2003
LCDs put arts centre visitors in the
frame
Visitors to a new interactive arts and media centre in Liverpool are being televised live for public view thanks to an LCD system supplied by Amplicon Liveline.
Visitors to a new interactive arts and media centre in Liverpool are being televised live for public view thanks to an LCD system supplied by Amplicon Liveline A series of custom-made LCD monitors and small form factor industrial embedded PC systems engineered to receive 'real-time' CCTV and Internet feeds have been installed in the Orientation Wall at FACT, which opened earlier this year
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The GBP 10 million centre, designed by award-winning architect Austin-Smith:Lord, is Liverpool's first purpose-built cultural project for over 60 years and seeks to bring technology and art closer together for the benefit of the public.
In addition to two exhibition galleries and three state-of-the-art cinemas, the centre houses MITES (the Moving Image Touring and Exhibition Service - a resource used by museums and galleries across the UK), the medialab, a digital mastering service and a transmission suite which provides artists with the most up-to-date technology available.
Situated in the centre's main foyer, the Orientation Wall features 14 LCD screens housed in custom-made, brushed stainless-steel enclosures.
While the wall's lower tier of seven 18in monitors display live gallery and cinema programme information, an upper tier of seven 15in screens carries a collage of live images featuring events and visitors captured by CCTV cameras located throughout the building.
In addition to providing customised monitors, Amplicon was also commissioned to provide the seven small-form-factor industrial embedded PC systems with VIA C3 processors that run the display programmes.
"We are extremely pleased with the contribution that Amplicon Liveline has made to this project", comments Clive Gillman, Lead Artist and Associate Director for FACT.
"It underlines their ability to customise product technology in a way that fully meets specification requirements and we are now talking with them about several other collaborative ventures for the future".
"This has been a prestigious contract for us", adds Mike Wood, Managing Director of Amplicon Liveline, "which builds on our extensive experience in the embedded computing field for commercial applications.
It also reinforces the strength of Amplicon's 30 years of application expertise across a broad range of industry environments".
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