Kirsten Nelson

Kirsten Nelson

Kirsten Nelson has written about audio, video and experience design in all its permutations for more than 20 years. As a writer and content developer for AVIXA, Kirsten connects stories, people and technology through a variety of media. She also directs program content for the TIDE Conference and Technology Innovation Stage at InfoComm. For three years, she also created conversations around emerging media and experiential design at InfoComm's Center Stage. Prior to that, Kirsten was the editor of SCN magazine for 17 years.

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Podcast: What Does Hospitality Sound Like Now?

By Kirsten Nelson

TIDE Generator Host Kirsten Nelson discusses how music and sound are reframing this moment in hospitality with guests Pablo Henderson, Vice President of Marketing for Equinox Hotels and Anida Gurlit, Creative Director of Music Design for Mood Media.

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Podcast: Human Factors in Workplace Design

By Kirsten Nelson

We have all learned how to work in new ways during the pandemic. By now, each individual has had time to consider what they miss about the old way of working, and what they have embraced about these socially distant times. The reactions are as varied as the types of people who share the workplace.

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Envisioning the Future: Experiential Workspace Case Study

By Kirsten Nelson

VisionLoft blends the historic charm of the property’s livery stable past with the sleek and intuitive innovation of modern audiovisual and collaborative technologies.

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Podcast: Can we use technology to make events more human?

By Kirsten Nelson

The events and experiential marketing industries have arrived at a new phase in this dramatic and painful pause on in-person gatherings. We are learning a lot, and as we settle in for the long-haul with remote life and a gradual return to in-person events, we have an opportunity to completely reimagine the way we connect.

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Peloton Sprints Into Immersive Video Content With New Tread Studio

By Kirsten Nelson

Peloton, which created an entirely new way to participate in spin classes with its lushly produced interactive in-home workouts, has now brought a completely integrated experience to the running world.

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A Multipurpose Stadium Upgrades for a Better Show in Lucas Oil Plaza

By Kirsten Nelson

The technology upgrades maintained the original exhibit design for the space, with screen refreshes throughout.

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Going the Extra Mile for the Yard House Dining Experience

By Kirsten Nelson

Crystal-clear sound at rock club levels and quality was one of the key atmospheric elements of Yard House when it opened in Long Beach, California back in 1996.

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Legacy Records Restaurant Elevates Dining With Carefully Curated Music and Acoustics

By Kirsten Nelson

The meticulously designed new restaurant mingles precisely curated music and the luxury of proper acoustics to craft an atmosphere that feels comfortable and vibrant at the same time.

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How to Use Your Audio Prowess as a Happy Shopping Diversion Over the Holidays

By Kirsten Nelson

To ready myself for the holiday shopping season, I did some intense endurance training on the mean midtown streets of Manhattan with retail and hospitality audio guru David Schwartz, president of Essential Communications.

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Podcast: Transcending Technology to Create Narrative

By Kirsten Nelson

When we hear the word interactive, it’s easy to immediately think about technology, or the way we interface with it. But interactivity begins with humans, and is in fact an extension of the gestures, spontaneity and engagement we use to gather an understanding of the world around us.

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Podcast: Reshaping the classroom experience

By Kirsten Nelson

For years flexible learning spaces have undergone rapid evolutions to accommodate new styles of learning. AV technology is at the center of these changes both as the impetus to create more interactive classroom experiences and as a reflection of the tools and knowledge sources central to learning.

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A Venue Built to Redefine a Neighborhood With an Engaging Architectural Video Experience

By Kirsten Nelson

Lower Manhattan's Pier 17, once home to the mall at South Street Seaport, has all the makings of an experience designer’s dream.

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Must-See at Center Stage: How Heather Shaw Creates Mega-Star Production Designs for Mariah Carey and Kendrick Lamar

By Kirsten Nelson

Place yourself for a moment in that most glorious of design phases, the one at the very start of a project, when just about anything is possible.

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Morton Salt Adds More Flavor to its Live-Streamed Quarterly Meetings

By Kirsten Nelson

Morton Salt is innovating the ways it connects with team members across numerous international offices, mining facilities and partner manufacturers during global quarterly meetings, which invigorate audiences with increasingly tech-enabled interactive and dynamic productions.

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Podcast: How Museums Are Creating a New Narrative

By Kirsten Nelson

One of the reasons we will return to public spaces is the search for a fuller sense of engagement. Remote life has us confined to separate and disembodied existences, communicating with each other primarily through the limited rectangles of video screens, in public spaces even the currents of air in outdoor spaces might provide new narrative information.

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Summertime Live Music Gets Even More Immersive

By Kirsten Nelson

The term “immersive” is used a lot, and it means many different things, but something new is happening in 2019.

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You Don’t Need a Glowing Red Nose to Find Immersive AV Holiday Experiences this Season

By Kirsten Nelson

Celebrate AV this season! No matter where you are, you can get out and see some majestic mapping and hear some great tunes.

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Action Busts Through the Bowl at the Wells Fargo Center

By Kirsten Nelson

The Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia immerses visitors in video experiences from the front door to the top of the concourse. It's like "being inside an aquarium, with a flow of content all around you."

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Tuning the Technology and Acoustics at Duke Ellington School of the Arts

By Kirsten Nelson

The facility moves behind-the-scenes efforts to center stage, prompting enhanced collaboration among departments and providing new ways to invite the community to enjoy the dazzling creative output of a uniquely talented student body.

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Notre Dame Enrolls IP Flexibility for the Modern Media Era

By Kirsten Nelson

Firmly established in the league of historic academic and athletic icons, Notre Dame University also enjoys the coveted modern-era distinction of breaking new ground with cross-platform content creation.