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Audi turns the IAA upside down and Bocatec is in

The international automobile exhibition IAA in Frankfurt am Main is year after year the mega event of the industry. The producers outperform each other by presenting their latest models on the innovative trade show booth with dazzling presentation techniques. This year Bocatec assisted the big press conference from Audi on the 10^th September and put the new models with a laser show on stage.

Audi did not just only book a simple trade show booth on the IAA, but build a huge separate 3.400 square meter trade fair hall on the area. The motto: „Audi turns the IAA upside down“ was here realized through a specular trade show construction and design. Inside the Audi hall a whole city grew from the ceiling. „This unique building invites you to look at the conditions for urban mobility from a different and unusual point of view“, explained Audi the architecture.

At 9 am in the morning the 20 minute press conference started with 1500 guests. The hanging city was illuminated suspense-packed with complex beamer projections. The complete show with video screens, light, sound and live acts was then professionally clocked. Bocatec supported the wow-effect with 20 lasers and 16 fog machines. Audi presented for the first time its A8 with matrix LED lights, the new A3 cabriolet as well as the show cars Audi Sport Quattro concept and Audi Nanuk Quattro concept. The show was broadcasted live around the globe and online. After this impressive start 800.000 visitors came to the Audi hall on the IAA. Bocatec was happy to take part in this mega event.

Jun

Lasers welcome Buick Cars in Qingdao

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General Motors presented the new models of the Buick brand to the Chinese market on the 28^th September 2013. Directly on the coast of the megacity Qingdao Bocatec cared for a fulminant kick-off of the car presentation with a laser show with harbor view.

Buick war already founded in 1903 by David Dunbar Buick in Michigan as an independent car brand. William Durant, who founded General Motors in 1908, took over the brand in 1904. Until the 70ies Buick was very successful inside the USA. In Qingdao Buick now presented the new medium class models of the series Regal and Regal GS. Therefor Buick invited more than 600 customers to a big open air show on the vestibule of the former Olympic station. Meanwhile in China the brand Buick is quite famous, every place in front of the self-constructed stage was taken.

A+ car laser show becomes talk of the town
Inspired by the car show in Chengdu, where Bocatec made a strong presentation for the brand INFINITI, the Buick people engaged the team from Hamburg for the laser show in Qingdao. The former German colony and coastal metropolis is well known for its beer. Bocatec boss – Boris Bollinger – felt like home and also the collaboration with the technicians on site worked perfectly well.

That’s what is behind

3 Bocatec guys (light designers, light technicians and laser technicians) and other ten technical guys on site did the 6-day build-up for the whole light and laser show. More than 60 spot-moving heads and 40 washers had to be installed, 11 high-power lasers each with more than 10-20W white light power, 8 fog and wind machines and 6 hazers were used. The control was done by the PHOENIX show controller. Parallel to the laser show there were videos from Buick run on different screens, synchronized via SMPTE-time code. In only 2 weeks a 5 minute laser- and light show was ready that almost stole the show from the new model row Regal.

Weather capers and good luck
After it dad rained the whole afternoon and the stage was under water until shortly before the show, on Saturday evening at 19pm everything was perfectly ready. The rain went away and the Buick cars drove as stars of the evening on the stage. The new models drove harmonized with the music and light under a sea of laser beams onto the stage.

After the laser show is before the laser show
The customers were very delighted by the Bocatec performance and the tip-top laser show and fully satisfied about the evening. Further car presentations are surely realized by Bocatec as partner. Parallel our expertise for fulminant car shows got around, so that Bocatec will beam the lasers again already in November for the high-performance brand Mercedes AMG.

Jun

Manga-fountain for Dusseldorf’s birthday

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With a big citizens party the city Düsseldorf celebrated on 13^th September its 725^th birthday. The biggest homeland club of the city – the Düsseldorf Jonges – brought a very special present to the city with the help of Bocatec. The german-japanese multimedia artist Kanjo Také projected his light artwork with manga figures onto a water shield in the fountain of the Hofgarten.

Solemn live premiere
At 19.30pm the trombonists of the Robert-Schumann-high school greeted the guests. Several speakers, thereunder major Dirk Elbers and the consul general of Japan, Kiyoshi Koinuma welcomed the audience. At 21pm then the water and light beams slowly rose in front of the “Jrönen Jong” in the Hofgarten spring. Then Kanjo Také projected his „dance of the divine heroes“ onto the 525m² big water screen together with alienated, spherical nature sounds. Therefor Také took protagonists in manga costumes on picture. This is a unique thin until now, he said. Also the 3000 guest haven’t seen something like that before and were thus overwhelmed and fascinated by the artwork.

The installation
Bocatec was occupied for 4 days with the buildup of the enormous water shield with 45 kW. The screen should extent over a maximum surface of 15m x 35m. 15tsd ANSILumen beamers in outdoor housing cared for the artistic illumination of the water wall.

Bocatec water-egg shined every night
Due to the huge excitement about the successful installation, the Jonges gave the city the artwork for pe4rmanent present in form of an egg-shaped water shield around the monument. Therefor the water egg was newly and fixed mounted after the celebrations and now shines in the evening hours in Düsseldorf.

The Bocatec range around water projections and more you discover here.

Jun

Bocatec packs packets for Discocontact

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For the twelfth time in a row the leading trade show for scene and club gastronomy, the Discocontact took place the 12^th October 2013 in Ibbenbühren close to Osnabruck. Bocatec presented its event technology and services to the industry experts and packed attractive complete packages for first-time-users and party pros.

The Discocontact is the annual branch event for clubs, DJs and music producers. On over 3000 square meters around the party temple AURA the club people meet since 2001. The trade show offers several tents and an exposition mix that meets all needs of the deciders of the scene gastronomy. Over the last years the Discocontact is really successful, more and more first-class exhibitors and visitors from Germany and abroad visited the trade show.

Bocatec is there to enable the visitors on the Discocontact and in their clubs to celebrate wildly and flashy in the future. A broad spectrum of disco lasers and projection technics with the full panoply of foggers, pyro technics and confetti-shooters up to control technics and a complete service package Bocatec is offering to the club operators. The owners of bars, clubs and discotheques were thus excited about the Bocatec trade show offers and visited the booth numerously. Next year on 14th October the next Discocontact will take place – Bocatec is looking forward to Discocontact 2014.

Jun

Konica Minolta Wevolution starts with laser show in Barcelona

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At the 25th October 2013 a Bocatec laser show opened up the European Leadership Conference 2013 for Konica Minolta. With the slogan: “Let’s wevolve our markets!” the leading IT service provider and specialist for document processes presented to his Europe-wide sales partners an exciting forecast of the future developments and product news inside the huge auditorium of the Convention Centers in Barcelona.

With its futuristically modern design architecture the Forum Auditorium as location fitted perfectly the occasion. The Suisse architects Herzog and DeMeuron planned the majestic blue triangle 25 m high and 180 m long. On over 25,000 m² over 3.000 Konica Minolta partners took a seat to learn about the future visions of Konica. On the 740 m² stage all hell was let loose thanks to Bocatec.

The „WEVOLUTION“ announced colorful and giant a new area of collaboration and togetherness between Konica Minolta and its partners. Future solutions for office and production printing and extended customer services were behind that. An illuminated giant therefore moved through the audience with the new message. Bocatec surrounded the impressive spectacle with a laser show. Afterwards Masatoshi Matsuzaki, CEO of Konica Minolta Inc. Talked about the new strategy.

Bocatec was present on site for the awesome opening show by order of the TLD planning group. Five days with two 14 watt Piko lasers in Barcelona. The software Phoenix live controlled the show. Bocatec is looking forward to the next wevolution and likes to also advance together with Konica Minolta. Because the customers were highly satisfied, a repetition can come.

Jun

Bocatec demonstrates with ver.di against minimum wages

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„DHL – Die Haben Lohndumping“ (they do minimum wages) this clear statement against scandalizing and precarious working conditions at DHL the 100% subsidiary of the German POST war projected militantly by Bocatec for the labor union ver.di onto the façade of the Congress Center Hamburg.

At the 6th November the national work council of the German Post AG held a meeting in Hamburg. The boss of the company, Dr. Frank Appel faced not only 620 members of the work council but was also impressively criticized for the massive minimum wages and bad working conditions of the DHL subsidiary.

The united service work council (ver.di) engaged the projection experts from Bocatec to put up the blatantly obvious statement „Fair instead of precarious“. From 18 – 19pm Bocatec projected a 20 seconds loop of the motto „DHL – Die Haben Lohndumping“ with the help of a 14W RGB Piko Laser onto the 120 m high house wall of the CCH. A brave and very fast action, just two days before came the order, just 10 minutes before the projection, Bocatec put up the projectors.

The widely visible protest-projection should denunciate especially the insupportable conditions at the DHL Express Germany GmbH. Working times of up to 70 hours per week and hourly earnings of around 5 Euro are a DHL standard. Since 2006 the delivery is furthermore outsourced and so the contractors are out of the rate regulations. Like this the DHL saves full-time workplaces that are liable to insurance deductions and passes on the business risk to the contractors. These drawbacks should be clearly marked, so the target of the mission.

The regional head of the postal services, transport and logistics and ver.di-man Lars-Uwe Rieck war heavily thrilled by the successful Bocatec laser projection and the short-tern, cool and straightforward realization of the action. Bocatec was very happy to apply its laser technics this time so gladiatorial and proverbial demonstrative.

Jun

Artistic water-egg fascinated Düsseldorf

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As a permanent present for the 725th city anniversary of Düsseldorf, the biggest homeland club of the city – the Dusseldorf Jonges – gave new, spectacular birth to the water monument “den Jrönen Jong”. Bocatec therefor wrapped the over hundred years old sculpture of the river god Triton into an egg-shaped water artwork.

The „Jonges“ disproved with their extraordinary present that homeland clubs only know old traditions. The club with 2500 members thought for a long time about a suiting present for the jubilee of the city. The genius and original installation combines skillfully the closeness to the home city and artwork and is a great balancing act between tradition and modernity. The 3m high monument in the water basin at the end of the Reitallee was created in 1899 by Joseph Hammerschmidt and represents the river god Triton, who is interrupted by a hippy during his lunch. The Jonges would like to also raise the awareness of the other 70 monuments in Düsseldorf by trying out creative ways of presentation. The “Jrönen Jong” is now a perfect example for that.

The mega present
The „Jröne Jong“ inside the Hofgarten now stands in the middle of „fight of the fountains“ every evening. Around 80 water jets are arranged in a 6m circle around the monument. These jets are controlled by three pumps with 8KW power each and play with and against each other. The water beams can be continuously adjusted up to 7 m height. Through the loops of the water beams towards the middle a 5m high water egg comes out. Additionally the whole construction is illuminated by 42 LEDs a 180 Watt and shines in different colors. Under this water egg the “Jröne Jong” optically is virtually cleared away. The production enchants over 15 minutes long every spectator and is played in loop again and again.

The installation
The way to the finished artwork was thus long. First Bocatec had to measure the monument with the help of a rubber boat. The crown for the water supply and three LED lights were then mounted into the basin around the monument with a crane. Four full days Bocatec worked frenetically. The water circle had to have a diameter of six meter. The results satisfy and are an eye candy for all park visitors and passerbys. Bocatec is already looking forward to the next spectacular staging of further monuments.

Jun

SIMPLY-DO – Microsoft showed it with Gorillas, Zero Gravity Man and video projection

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Passerbys in Munich’s train station, on the Salvator place, the Odeon’s place and in the Sonnenstrasse were amazed the 19^th November „einfachmachen“ (simply do). With this motto Microsoft roughed up the city with several guerilla actions for the launch of the new office package 365.

Microsoft hashtags in guerilla mode
Cheeky gorillas distributed bananas downtown and sprayed the hashtag #einfachmachen everywhere with chalk color onto streets and walls. Inside the train station a man weightlessly floated in front of a hashtag billboard. Bocatec threw the motto via video projection ultra large onto house walls. #Einfachmachen stands for the idea of new, mobile working in the cloud, that nothing can stop you from. With Office 365 every user should let his thoughts wander freely everywhere and on every device – unleashed and free. Representatively for the guild of new working several literature and creative bloggers met for a creative competition around #einfachmachen and tested the new possibilities of Office 365.

Bocatec works hypermobile
That computer towers, fix work stations and limited access to relevant documents don’t fit into the digital age, is also the opinion of Bocatec. Engaged by DL-Kommunikation the two Bocatec boys sprinted through Munich to put the message demonstratively in scene. With a 15.000 ANSI-Lumen beamer, two coupled generators and a special video software for geometric correction the commando was: „Transporter door open!”, “generators on!”, “beamer go!” and after 10-15 minutes head to the next location!“ So quick and convincingly Bocatec itself transacted the motto of the day with a surprise effect.

Bocatec „simply does“ make customers happy
Microsoft was impressed how much is visible on a house wall. Within the next weeks, Bocatec will immediately sit together and talk to the customer about the next Guerilla actions.

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Passerbys in Munich’s train station, on the Salvator place, the Odeon’s place and in the Sonnenstrasse were amazed the 19th November „einfachmachen“ (simply do). With this motto Microsoft roughed up the city with several guerilla actions for the launch of the new office package 365.

Passerbys in Munich’s train station, on the Salvator place, the Odeon’s place and in the Sonnenstrasse were amazed the 19^th November „einfachmachen“ (simply do). With this motto Microsoft roughed up the city with several guerilla actions for the launch of the new office package 365.