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before you even get to the venue. It gives you a good base to build from when you do get on-site, which subsequently opens up more time to finesse the finer details throughout the project.” A SPOTLIGHT ON SUSTAINABILITY Sustainability is now a key consideration in creative lighting. Astera’s energy- efficient LEDs and wireless, battery- powered solutions let designers reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint without compromising on quality or creativity. “In addition, Astera lights have an impressively long product life cycle, so they can be used for many years, enabling companies to make environmentally responsible choices while maintaining full creative and visual impact,” says Bückle. Although nothing will beat the old glow of a PAR can for King, he admits it’s important that sustainability be taken into account. “This has been really noticeable on the outdoor light trails where I would say we’re almost exclusively LED now,” he says. “I also spend time looking at how we can reuse LED tape products etc where possible rather than treating them as a consumable on shorter-running shows. The growth of LED has made it easier for us to make energy-efficient decisions. Before we would need four 1K tungsten units gelled, and now we only need one LED unit instead.” On another point, there are also debates and fears circling around AI’s impact on the industry. As designers adopt increasingly integrated systems,
develop better terms to describe its usage and categorise it better. For example, the sort of AI that supports a workplace’s or system’s efficiency by eliminating mundane tasks could be useful for the creative industries. You can free up time that’s better spent improving your project’s creative output, just as the kind of integration between departments that I mentioned before enables teams to work faster, more accurately and to consider more involved concepts. “It can amplify our capabilities. Let the dialogue continue – but quickly because this particular technological landscape is moving faster than anything I’ve witnessed before!”
there is a useful dialogue to be had about this. On the subject of AI, Dunn appears circumspect, seeming positive about it while also remaining conscious of its environmental impact, given how much energy and water it takes to use AI as a system. Generative AI is under fire due to fears that it could replace human creativity with regurgitated AI slop. “Not all AI is the same,” concludes Dunn. “We need to
Not all AI is the same. We need to develop better terms to describe its usage and categorise it more effectively
Astera’s robust and energy-efficient Quikpunch (left and above) and Quikspot (right) LEDs
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