Fantasee Lighting
Techfest 2010

Friday Seminar Description and Presenter Biographies
LED Technology Application

Friday, April 23, 2010 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Solid State Lighting - Applications, Advancements, and Risks


Stefan Graf - President - Illuminart, Inc.
Stefan Graf began his career as a lighting designer in an era that revolutionized lighting design to the concert touring industry. In the late 60's, Graf provided services for a variety of international concert and theatrical productions. He was involved in many aspects, from lighting design and direction to the engineering of mechanical and electrical systems for broadcast video and live shows. In 1975, Graf founded Fantasee Lighting to serve unique lighting needs of video, corporate theater, exhibits and stage shows. While with Fantasee, Graf developed the 1st automated stage light, a precursor to today's popular automated fixture. Graf is a leader in exhibit lighting, and was one of the first lighting designers to bring automated fixtures to the North American International Auto Show.  As the market changed, Graf saw the need for a design firm that focused on the needs of commercial, retail, and residential architectural projects and founded Illuminart. Graf and his team at Illuminart provide professional architectural lighting design services that deliver value engineered, sustainable lighting solutions for clients around the globe.  Graf has received over 38 International Illumination Design Awards, including two IIDA Awards of Distinction, and his projects have been featured in a variety of industry publications, including Lighting Dimensions, LD&A, and Architectural Lighting magazine. Graf, an active member of the design community, is a proponent of sustainable design through cost effective design programs. Additionally, Graf is helping to ensure a promising future for lighting design by severing in various leadership positions in both the IALD and IESNA, as well as instructing lighting design courses at various universities, and speaking at numerous seminars and tradeshows worldwide.

Tony Hansen - Lighting Designer - Techni-Lux, Inc.
Tony Hansen is the resident Lighting Designer, Systems Consultant and Instructor for Techni-Lux, Inc. of Orlando. He has over 25 years of lighting and design experience in many areas of entertainment and construction. In addition to consultation services, he lights several seasonal productions each year for church's throughout the USA. He was also involved with the design team for Universal's Islands of Adventure and has worked on several touring productions. Lately he has been working with Techni-Lux on designs for Disney, Six Flags, Universal, Wet n' Wild, Westin hotels and several other house of worship, retail and architectural projects throughout the world. Techni-Lux is a full service lighting supplier and also offers design, consultation and training services.

Motion Picture and Television Lighting

Friday, April 23, 2010 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Equipment, Perspectives, and Techniques


Harry D. Akers, President, Light Works, Inc.
Harry brings 30 years of experience in Grip, Gaffer, Lighting Direction and equipment supply. Partial Credits include: Feature films: "The Carrier", "Evil Dead II", "Crime Wave", "Lunatics", "Semi-Pro" and "Whip-it". Events: Beijing 2008 Olympics, Super Bowl XL, Red Bull Air Races Detroit, Pink's ALL OUT. Commercials for notables such as Presidents H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Vice-President Joe Biden, Senator Bob Dole, Governor Engler, and Dick DeVos for Governor. Documentaries: BBC's "Rumrunners", 20/20's "Mental Genocide". Music videos: Aretha Franklin's "Freeway of Love", Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise "California", and "Charmfarm". Hundreds of industrials and video corporate communications and a little bit of theatrical lighting. Harry is a past President of the Michigan Media Professionals (formerly the Detroit Producers Association), a member in good standing of the I.A.T.S.E. Union Local 38 Stage Employees for Lighting, Live Audio, and Teleprompting and a member in good standing of I.A.T.S.E. Union Local 812 Motion Picture Studio Mechanics for the recording of Audio and Teleprompting.

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