RC4 Wireless Offers Many Ways to Learn More About Wireless DMX at USITT

RC4 hosted "A Life Untethered -- Wireless DMX and Dimming for Props and Costumes" Session on Wednesday March 16. This year panelists included USITT Keynote Speaker Tupac Martir, Ben Hohman of Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Chris Wood from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Martir is a multimedia artist, visual designer, and creative director, specializing in light. London-based under brands Satore Studio and TM, Martir leads a globally recognized multidisciplinary art, design, and creative production group. His designs have illuminated many London Fashion Week shows, the British Museum, performers at the Coachella Music Festival, and his own art installations, including a light sculpture titled 'Unique' that will be installed at the Salt Palace Convention Center for USITT 2016.

Hohman is in his 23rd season at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, where he serves as the properties and display director. He oversees all aspects of the Festival's Properties and Display Department, and has prop-mastered over 110 shows for the Festival. For the Festival's Shakespeare-in-the-Schools Tour, and their Playmakers program, he designs scenery. Previously he worked at Actors Theater in Louisville, Kentucky as a props artisan and prop master. In his spare time Ben builds scenery for ballet, community theatre, and pageants, as well as floats for parades.

Wood is a freelance designer and visiting assistant professor of lighting design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In 2015 Chris was honored to receive the LDI/Live Design & USITT Rising Star Award. Recently, Chris finished his third season at Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre, which included Carousel, Man of La Mancha, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and La Bohème. In February 2015, Chris began preproduction lighting design work for a feature film in Seoul, South Korea. He has designed for the premieres of Tuning In, The Rockae, Charlie's Wake, The Birds, Wizard of Wall Street, and Death By Design: A Comedy With Songs And Murder. Indiana Festival Theatre design credits: lighting for Music Man, sound for Ah Wilderness! and Comedy of Errors. Des Moines Metro Opera credits: sound design for Tosca and Der Freischütz. Brown County Playhouse credits: lighting for The Putnam County 25th Annual Spelling Bee and sound for Last Night of Ballyhoo. John Beasley Theatre credits: lighting for Two Trains Running, Crowns, The Boys Next Door, Seven Guitars, Topdog/Underdog. Chris's work can be seen at www.chriswoodld.com

On Friday March 18th at 12:40pm on the Innovation Stage, join application specialist Sean Dane as he talks about the 2015 PLASA Innovation Award Winning RC4Magic Series 3 DMXpix.