Naked City: Spencer Tunick in 'Newcastle/Gateshead featured a series of installations on the north bank of the Tyne, on a Newcastle street, alongside the Sage Gateshead Complex, and adjacent to the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. The finale to the live broadcast was when 550 naked participants assembled on the Gateshead Millennium Bridge under Spencer's instruction, at dusk.
Lighting designer Mike Le Fevre was commissioned to light the project. Lighting rental and crew supply was by AFM Lighting's Broadcast & Events Division, based in London, and included five Martin Wireless DMX-512 and three Martin Wireless DMX-512 Pro Diversity devices.
"It was the first installation that Spencer ever conducted at night, so lighting was crucial," Le Fevre commented. "As site cable runs were extensive, in excess of 150-200 meters, my AFM crew boss Andy Siddal had elected to use a wireless DMX system and distributed dimming.
"We had a Martin Wireless DMX-512 transmitter/receiver unit on each DMX OP and a Martin Wireless DMX-512 receiver locally sited to each set of dimmers. The system performed faultlessly even in the harsh RF environment with the local metal security barriers, the OB truck's radio TB systems, radio cameras and the outgoing satellite link all a matter of feet away from our equipment."
(Jim Evans)
