Catherine OwensSome great stuff on U2 dot com from the visuals designer with U2 on the road.
I have met her and she is a great Level 5 Human. This comes fresh to me .......... lots more on the website ....
"Human Rights
For the Vertigo tour I was thinking that possibly we could revisit the Declaration of Human Rights, reviving an important piece of text for the time we are living in. It would also allow us to make a political statement without pointing any fingers. For this we needed the right combination of voice, person and emotion - it happened to be a woman from Thailand called Beng Kamsaard. She has an air of everyone about her, a timeless face. We shot a short film and edited it in New York and then put it into after-effects for our screens.
I wanted to find a way to find a third dimension on this tour something akin to the effect that Willie got with the Pigi audience projections on Elevation. The concept was to project her head onto fog so that she is not only seen to be speaking on the screen but also seen to be hovering in the building. This fog concept was influenced by an artist called Tony Oursler. When we finally brought all the bits to rehearsals - the head, the smoke, the text, the audio - the band looked at it and some changes were made until we got the piece running now. It's quite haunting and a credit to U2 that they are fearless with their visuals in the show. "
