Terranova has been freelancing with Avolites Ai as a programmer, operator and beta tester, before a permanent position arose. She has a degree in Stage Design and a Masters in Performance Design and Practice from Central St. Martins, where she also works as a guest lecturer. In the past two years, she has experimented with various programmes for live video manipulation, such as Isadora, Quartz Composer and Processing, and also the Kinect infrared sensor for motion tracking.
Terranova has worked with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Science Museum, designing interactive installations and sound reactive visuals.
"I saw the amazing work that Avolites had undertaken for the London 2012 Olympics, and I wanted to find out how they achieved that, technically," says Terranova. "I find it very exciting to work at the cutting edge of video technology, working side by side with people who push the boundaries of what can be achieved with the technologies that we have today."
Pratheepan 'Prads' Vigneswaran has been working with Avolites for 10 years, having joined straight from school. He has progressed from their production department, through to sSales admin. He now moves into Ai Sales.
"I've had some great experiences with Avolites so far, my proudest moment being having a hand in building the servers that were used in the video mapping of London's Olympic Stadium."
The Avolites team also says a sad goodbye to Simon Graham, who departs after two years as Ai service and support engineer to become video and media server technician at Media Powerhouse.
"It was not an easy decision as I was very happy being part of the Avolites Media family and supporting all the cutting edge projects that Ai media servers were used on throughout the world," says Graham. "The job offer that came from Media Powerhouse was an excellent opportunity to expand my live event skills across the board into sound, staging, lighting, rigging and of course video.
Avolites MD Steve Warren comments: "We would like to wish Simon all the best, and look forward to working with him in the future. We also welcome Annalisa to the Avolites family and Pratheepan into his new role. With the launch of V8, these are exciting times for Ai, and we're looking forward to a great year."
(Jim Evans)
