Jakarta’s Ciputra Artpreneur opens with impressive A/V
Published: ASIA
INDONESIA: Located in Jakarta Golden Triangle on the top floor of Ciputra World Jakarta Mall, Ciputra Artpreneur has finally opened its doors. The Ciputra family not only wanted to display its enviable art collection to the public, but also wanted to stimulate the arts scene in Indonesia by providing galleries, an international standard theatre, museum and multifunction rooms. Marketed as a place of destination to discover, explore, experience and celebrate Indonesian and international art, the 10,000 sq-m space has certainly drawn attention to itself both within and beyond Indonesia.
Ciputra Artpreneur boasts three main galleries, but it is the Art Show Gallery, serving as an exhibition hall, that really sets it apart in terms of A/V excellence. The connecting space has been fully utilised and designed as a large tunnel with a tall glass wall on one side offering a vista of Jakarta, and a balcony on the other side connected by two revolving spiral staircases. The walls, floor and ceiling of the gallery are literally brought to life having had sophisticated Christie projection and Meyer Sound systems woven into the space’s very fabric.
PT V2 Indonesia was called upon to design and install the video technology into the Art Show Gallery. Fourteen Christie WX10-KM WXGA 10,000-lumens digital projectors have been installed at equal distances apart on ledges opposite the vast window. Each projector receives its images via Cat-5 cabling from a standalone GeoBox G-104 processor that provides curved screen edge blending via a DVI interface. The rear control room is equipped with a monitor and GUI linked to the 14 G-104 processors, where the video manager can ensure the resultant images emitting from the 14 Christie WX10-KM projectors has been output correctly onto the 54m wide x 8.6m height screen.
PT Kairos Multijaya installed nine Meyer sound Stella-8 ceiling speakers in addition to 10 MM4XP self-powered 4-inch miniature loudspeakers and an additional two wall-mounted UP4XP and four MM10XP subwoofers. Pro Tools 11 software provides 25 discrete channel surround sound playback, whilst MediaMatrix Nion Ne and Cab4n processors enable both speaker management configuration in the gallery together with connection to the main theatre, should the need arise. Each speaker in the gallery has been programmed to perform discretely and independently. Dante enabled, the Nion processors are synchronised with Pro Tools 11, which then synchronises with the Resolum software video servers via Midi. Full flexibility has been provided as the signals can be transported via the Dante Cat-5 network to all the galleries, museum and back of house facilities.
On the eve of Indonesia’s Independence Day, the Ciputra’s celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. The glittering occasion was marked by the official opening of the oval shaped theatre, in which a production replaying their romantic meeting in the early 1950s was performed with a plethora of famous Indonesian actors and actresses. The entire audience was treated to perfect viewing angles and carefully tuned acoustics, whilst seeing for the first time a world-class venue that boasts a modular stage, orchestra pit and an extensive fly tower. Meyer Sound’s director of system optimisation Bob McCarthy flew into Jakarta from the company headquarters in California to finely tune the extensive Meyer Sound system in the Ciputra Theatre before the curtain raiser. The sound system combines 10 per-side Mica arrays, six HP700 subwoofers in a cardioid configuration suspended above the centre of the proscenium together with a CQ-1 central fill. The fills of the theatre’s self-powered system are equipped with eight UPM (front), four UP Junior (rear) and two UPJ (side-fill) cabinets. The productions are mixed on a DiGiCo SD7 console located in a rear control room.