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Current - Studios Paradis - Musée du Cinéma et du Cinéma d'Animation - Angoulême

Study to propose a new design and a scenario for a Cinema Museum and a Museum of Animation
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Contracting Owner: Magelis Pôle Image
Scenario: Pascal Vimenet, Animatographie L'expertise
Scenography: Agence Confino Agence Confino
Lighting and Audiovisuals designs: Culturetech

Current - MCEM - Cité de l'Économie et de la Monnaie

L'Hôtel Gaillard in Paris an old branch of Banque de France will hold the very first French museum dedicated to the economy.
He proposes to explain the economic monetary and financial mechanisms through interactive and ludic presentations.
The museum will broadly exposes its own collections of banknotes, coins, monetary manufacturing machine tools and objects related to bank trading.
The opening to the public of the City of the Economy and the Currency is planned for the fourth quarters of 2014.
Cité de l'Economie et de la Monnaie

Client: Banque de France
Architecte : Atelier Lion
Scénographie : Agence Confino
Architecte des monuments historiques : Eric Pallot
Conception technique : Y Ingénierie
Conception de l'éclairage : Culturetech
Conception du graphisme : Crocodile
Conception et production audiovisuelle : Studio K
Designer : Alexandco
Ingénierie environnementale : Transsolar
Conseil sécurité incendie et accessibilité : Casso & Associés
Acoustique : Impédance

2011 - Mar de Led - Pabellón de la Navegación - Sevilla

The 15th of December 2011 Sevilla will offer a new permanent exhibition: the Museo de la Navegación.
The visitors will be transported at the time when raising a boat was all an adventure and when Sevilla was a crucial port in the history of Navigation. The Swiss company Habbeger has been contracted by Spanish design company GPD to conceive and setup a lighting concept application which simulates the movements of the sea. A 56 x 24 m matrix composed by 14500 leds heads has been developped. The leds are inserted into the floor . A lightsitck is superposed to each led and conveys the emitted light to 12 optical lighting terminals. Each led is identified among a 18 DMX universes network and is individually controlled via Art-Net. The unit renders the ocean. With a Wifi Ipad terminal the visitor controls the application. Its fingers moves on the touch surface simulates the waves in fury or the quietude of the sea. Press reference

Design: GPD General diseno de producion
Mar de Led Concept, R&D, Production: HABEGGER Habegger
Lighting design: Jürgen Häcker, Habegger
Project management: Marco Fioretti, Habegger
VVVV Coding: Luigi Cassero, Habegger
Culturetech operating as subcontractor for Habegger was mainly in charge of the local build-up phase management.

2011 - Musée de l'Épingle - Usine Bohin, Vallée de la Risle, Basse Normandie

BOHIN the last French manufacturer of sewing needles, pins, and metal stationary supplies, survives and thrives in the fields of Arts & Crafts and Leisure Arts. Bohin a family enterprise was built in 1866 in lower Normandy and is part of the French National Registry of Historic Places. In 2012 a Museum of the Needle will be opened to the public into the factory. The journey organized during the manufacture activities will enhance the company strive to produce the highest quality products for artistic creations. A space will especially accommodate all the trades using in their manufacturing process using one of the products of the company (Haute couture, lace, patchwork, embroidery, tapestry, saddlery.).

Contracting Owner: EPF de Normandie Usine Bohin
Scenography: Agence Confino
Culturetech scope of work:
Lighting and Audiovisual designs, DCE and CCTP edition

2011 - NAT Museu de Ciències naturals de Barcelona

Barcelonian new municipal museum entrusted to architects Pierre Herzog and Jacques de Meuron.
Openings: Phase 1 March 2011, Phase 2 July 2011. Phase 3 forthcoming.

Superficie: 3000 m²
Contracting Owner: Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
Architecture, design : Herzog et de Meuron
Production: Grop
Culturetech scope of work:
We designed the lighting for more than two hundred high-end showcases, didactic tables and spatial environment.
The cues sequences were provided by DALI and DMX protocols computed by a central control system. We encoded ourselves.

2011 - Museo del Rock - Barcelona

Jordi Tardá is a recognized rock journalist, the Spanish John Peel.
Throughout the years he has been able to gather an enviable collection of thousand of objects related to the rock.
He is the creator of what is the first European museum entirely dedicated to Rock & Roll.
The museum is located in Barcelona. It occupies the fourth plant of the fully rebuild enclosure of the Arenas, the former Plaza de Toro of Barcelona.
The exhibition presents 5000 objects and near a million documents of text, audio and television.
Museo del Rock

Superficie: 2000 m²
Production: Grop
Culturetech scope of work:
Lighting design, light show encoding.

2011 - Fondation du Camp des Milles - Volet Refléxif

A citizen education purpose. Part of the project "Memory of Le Camp des Milles". The project aims to safeguard, arrange and open to the public the buildings of the only camp of internment, transit and deportation still in good state in France, carrying visible traces of this past. Aix en Provences
Scenographical proposal: DCE phase
Contracting Owner: La Fondation du Camp de Milles Fondation du Camp des Milles
Scénographie: Martin Michel
Culturetech scope of work:
Audiovisuals and showcontrol definitions. DCE tender specifications edition.

2011 - Museo Dell'Automobile Di Torino

"The Museo has been fully redesigned to be placed among the most cutting-edge of European cultural centres. The journey tells the visitors the story and the evolution of the motor car, as well as the social themes linked to it, its transformation from a means of transport to an object of worship, from its origins right up to the contemporary evolution of creative thought, and all this is done with spectacular displays showing off the valuable pieces in the collection".
Contracting Owner: The National Automobile Museum
Architect: Cino Zucchi Architetti Cino Zucchi Architetti
Scenography: Agence Confino Agence Confino
Culturetech scope of work:
Audiovisuals and showcontrol definitions. DCE tender specifications edition. The concepts include a dubble panoramical projection with a lenght of 80m and a height of 15m

2010 - Wafi Christmas Show

Set up of a Christmas show which includes architectural projections, sound and light.
December 2010 - Dubaï, UAE.
Design and production: Agence Nomanda Agence Nomada Video
Images concept design and production : Laurent Langlois Artslide

2010 - WIMU - Museo del vino - Castello Communale Falletti di Barolo

In September 2010 the Castle of Barolo reopened its doors to visitors with a brand new permanent exhibition.
The visit is a poetical celebration which presents wine as part of the history and the culture of a territory.
WIMU

Client : Regione Piemonte, Comune di Barolo
Scenography: Agence Confino
Culturetech scope of work:
Audiovisuals and showcontrol definitions. DCE tender specifications edition.

2010 - Tower of David - Museum of the History of Jerusalem

Museographical proposal; APS phase
Design: Agence Confino Agence Confino
Contracting Owner: The Tower of David Museum Tower of David
Scope:
Creative ideas, augmented reality fixture developement, audiovisuals and showcontrol definitions.

2010 - La Bienale di Venezia 2010: Exhibition Paris La Défense Seine Arche, Alex MacLean Given a Free Hand

Photographic carte blanche commission given to the American photographer Alex MacLean.
The exhibition reveals the historical, urban and social continuity that has been established along one of the world's grandest urban axes.
Location: Ca'ASI, Cannaregio, 6024 (Campiello Santa Maria Nova), from August 29 to September 19, 2010.
Maîtrise d'ouvrage: La Défense-Seine-Arche, Epad La Défense
Production & moving pictures: maliceimages Maliceimages
Scope:
Technical engineering: Culturetech

2010 - Wafi Permanent Show

A permanent show which includes architectural projections, sound and light. Application to the front buildings of the Wafi mall shopping centre, Dubai.
Opening January 2010 - Dubaï, UAE.
Design and production: Agence Nomanda Agence Nomada
Scope:
Architectural lighting, wifi sound, architectural projections and showcontrol tender edition.

2010 - Ocean et changement climatique

Contest for a immersive design for next the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie great exhibition.
Project lost.
Design: Maliceimages Maliceimages
Design: Agence In Site Agence In Site
Lighting design: Jean François Salieri
3D Visuals: Dider Jentrain
Scope:
Creative ideas, large curved projections, 3D sound system, aquagraphic curtain proposals.

2009 - Genome

Temporary exhibition which celebrates the 450th birthday of the Univeristy of Geneva. The exhibition shows the genetic research undertaken by the University and highlight the DNA complexity. The public is invite to an intense immersive journey into a dome, the human cell, with a 360° projection and a unique DNA leds interactive sculpture.
Ile Rousseau, Geneva.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Contracting Owner: UNIGE, University of Geneva Unige expo
Scope:
Creative ideas, audiovisuals lighting and showcontrol concepts; technical management.
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2008 - Madrid 2 de Mayo: Un pueblo, una naciòn

Temporary exhibition which celebrates the bicentennial birthday of Madrid insurection againts the napoleonians troops.
3500m², from April to September 2008, Centro de exposiciones Arte Canal.
Contracting Owner: Canal de Isabel II
Scenography: Felix Murcia
Production: Eventglobamedia Madrid 2 de Mayo
Scope:
Audiovisuals and showcontrol concepts; includes an immersive projection on each internal sides of a cube; edge blending for a total of 900 m² of projected surface.

2005 > 2008 - Agence Confino

Contracted as chief agency Agence Confino
The agency of scenography and museography works since nearly thirty years with the most prestigious museums around the world.
Daily management of 10 co-workers.
All agency's projects audiovisuals, interactive or immersive displays and showcontrol concepts desings.
Tender specifications edition of the agency's portofolio projects.

2007 - Expo x Expos

Travelling exhibition about the history of world Expos from 1851 to now, including Saragossa 2008 and Shangaï 2010 presentation.
Contracting owner: BIE Bureau international des Expositions Paris
Scenography: Agence Confino

2006 - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Permanent museum, design of the new galleries Discovery Centre, 1913 Galleries, Foyer Story of Evolution, New Dinosaur Hall, Exhibition Under the Sun.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Lighting Design: Lightemotion
Architect: CO Architects, LA

2006 - Museo Nazionale del Cinema de Torino

Permanent museum, design and installation of new spaces.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Lighting Design: Jean François Salieri
Set Builder: Mostre I Fiere

2006 - D'où venons-nous ?

Permanent exhibition, named finalists in the public competition for the museum scenographical project.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Contracting Owner: Musée des Confluences, Lyon
Architect: Coop-Himmelblau

2005 - Suzhou Science Museum

Permanent museum - Design of a Science Museum unlike all the others based on an oriental philosophic approach of the sciences.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Contracting Owner: Musée des Confluences, Lyon
Architect: J.J. Andrieu

2004 - La Darse

Permanent installation - Fontain projects for Marseilles.
Scenography: Agence Confino
Contracting Owner: City of Marseilles

2004 > 2005 - Opéra pictural, Pavillon de Belgique

Large-scale temporary exhibit - International Exhibition of 2005 Aichi Global Harmony, Japan .
Contracting Owner: Belgian Government
Scenography: Alexandre Obolensky, François Schuiten
Production Management: Can Do (Procon)
Scope:
Lighting Design of a 43m x 10m of painted canva and tulle to be washlighted and profiled with colored and dimmed fixtures; maximal distance projection: 1.3m.

1998 > 2003 - Phidani

A company dedicated to lighting control software development; ISIS, the main software product controls stage lighting, moving lights and lighting network (Opera Garnier, Scala de Milano …).
Client: Phidani for ADB Lighting, a Siemens company
Scope:
Technical specifications adds, Beta-test, training to opera houses around the world.

2002 - Fespaco

Opening event for the African Film Festival, Ouagadougou.
Production Management: Agence Binter
Scope:
Technical consultant for the feasibility study with the concept team and the contracting owner.

2002 - GIORDANO: Andrea Chénier

World premiere Opera.
Director: Paul-Emile Fourny
Set Design: Poppy Ramchetti
Production: International Santander Festival, Opera de Nice
Scope:
Lighting design.

2002 - Paris-Plage

First edition of the scenografical installation, Paris.
Scenography: Agence Nez-Haut, Paris
Scope:
External consultant for the lighting design, technical feasibility, standard and custom furniture.

2001 - La mer, les corps

Opening Ceremoy of the XIV Mediterranean Games. Large-scale event, Radez Stadium, Tunis.
Contracting owner: Tunisian Olympic Comitee
Director: Mohammed Driss
Lighting supplier: Prg (ex-Procon, ex-Cando)
Scope:
Lighting design and technical management in collaboration with Bernard Freymann.

2000 - Planet of Visions

Large-scale temporary exhibit, APD phase, Hannover Expo2000 Themepark.
Contracting Owner: German government
Design: François Schuiten
Scope:
Project manager

1999 > 2000 - Spanish Pavilion Universal Exhibition Hannover 2000

Large-scale temporary exhibit
Architect: Cruz y Ortiz
Project Management: Media Park Production Barcelona
Scope
Audiovisuals and showcontrol system design; lighting design
Technical tender specification’s edition
Technical Management on site

1978 > 1998 - Technical management, stage management, lighting design and direction

During those 20 years dedicated to entertainment activities, Michel Helson – CULTURETECH
collaborated with many events agencies, dances and theatrical companies; premiere and world tours completed:
50th birthday of the Operation Overload in Normandy, musical CATS in Paris,
stage management Teatro Central Expo-Sevilla92, Masra Project Cairo, Peter Wissbrod,
Bob Wilson, DV8, Anne-Thérésa de Keyrsmaker, Maurice Béjart, John Neumayer, W. Forshyte,
J.C. Galotta, John Lurie, Laurie Anderson, Michèle-Anne De Mey, Jan Fabre, Danat Dansa,
Cuadra de Sevilla, La Furat del Baus, Les Comedians, Teatro Arena,
Toneel Groep van Amsterdam, Carcone14, Jérôme Deschamps, Théâtre de l’Esquisse, Jean Pascal Levy Trumet,...

Culturetech December 2011