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The company is showing projection mapping onto a revolving complex-shaped structure

Swedish show control developer and manufacturer Dataton has launched WatchPax 4, a portable addition to its range of media servers.

Paddy Baker reports on the £1.6 million installation at London's Savoy Place, the HQ of the Institute of Engineering and Technology – which makes top-level AV available to members, visitors, events and even broadcasters

Multimedia technology is helping to open up the debate around the importance of water, the environment and climate change.

The global market for museums and visitor centres is buoyant and the demand for creative content and new technologies to entice and engage is helping.

Advanced projection mapping, pre-visualisation, uncompressed multiple-source video playback and new 3D media and modelling features are among the major new additions in the latest version of Dataton’s Watchout multi-display software.

As well as being an extremely well-designed show about one of the most important musical figures of the past 50 years, ‘David Bowie is’ also illustrates many of the ways in which major museum exhibitions are developing, says Paddy Baker