360 Tour Screen content. U2.

As the name suggests, the concept for this ground breaking tour has a gigantic expanding cylindrical video wall at its heart. Thanks to an innovative superstructure inspired by the LAX Theme Building, the band could perform ‘in the round’. Standing 48 metres tall on four cactus-like legs, this spider-like superstructure featured a glowing radio mast, suspended speakers and a huge circular video wall, which telescoped downwards into a multi-screen mosaic.

Controlled by soft & hardware designed by UVA, the wrap-round video/ animation which I designed was part of a protest dedicated to Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi over the track ‘Walk On’. The main challenge here was to create a continuity that could be appreciated by the audience from any point in the stadium. I also designed and directed visuals for the tracks ‘Ultraviolet’ and ‘Blue Room’.

Client U2 Show Director Willie Williams Producer Live Nation Production Manager Jake Berry ARCHITECT Mark Fisher (Stufish) Creative Consultants Morleigh Steinberg, Gavin Friday Lighting Design Willie Williams Costume Design Sharon Blankson Sound Design Joe O’Herlihy Staging Supplier TAIT, StageCo Video Content: Creative Direction Catherine Owens Art Direction Alex Carvalho Producers Mary McCarthy & Annika Stark (UVA) Produced at UVA Studio

EVENTS/ ARCHTECTURE/ MUSIC

• 110 shows in the tour, Opened to a capacity crowd of 90,000 people at Camp Nou, Barcelona, on 30 June 2009;

• Officially the highest grossing of all time, tour generated $736,421,584 in revenue;

• Now a permanent installation at Salt Lake City’s Living Planet Aquarium