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The Team |
THE TEAM The Athens Olympic Meteor is a collaborative effort involving a brilliant, creative, dedicated and hardworking team United States Steve Gray, President of Tiny Gray Matter, was responsible for the electronic design and programming of the control system for the meteor. Steve and and Mitch first worked together in 1999 Mark West and Pat McDermott, from Design Continuum (Newton, Massachusetts/Milan, Italy) designed the mechanical aspects of the hanging strobe system itself, allowing a single span, suspanded stystem that installs quickly and easily Virginia Byron oversaw administration, especially in the last three critical months Greece Costas Kapos headed the Athens installation group that engineered, fabricated and installed the 115 meter long suspension cable system and the 12 meter pole and anchoring that supported the massive installation. Elina Dallas, Kiki Dimitriadis, Petros Babasikas, and Bethia Liu of "Catch the Light" in Athens provided support and assistance, including interfacing with the Athens Olympics Committee and the City of Athens. Thanks to Leonidis Arniakos, George Panayiotous, and all at the Hotel St. George Lycabettus for their advice and assistance. The Web and Visuals Team Jaesung Song is the computer artist who helps create the 2-dimension images for both prints and website Yamil Suárez is the webmaster organizing the site Ernie Gillis installs the videos of the installations onto the website. Matt Barrett provided the homepage photo Videos shot by Tasos Fytros and Mark West; edited by Mitch Benoff Nikos Daniilidis took the aerial photographs used in some of the imagery. The Support Team Family, friends, colleagues, staffs, and workers far too numerous to mention, provided generous amounts of emotional, creative, and concrete support, enthusiasm, encouragement, patience, insight and assistance. Thanks to Berklee College of Music for their support of this endeavor. Special thanks to Ginny, Loren and Lew. |