The categories below celebrate not just content, space, and technology, but, most importantly, purpose. Why where these solutions implemented? Why were they designed? What was made better because of the work of dedicated individuals, artists, designers, engineers, and others? The below categories focus on different outcomes and the amazing people, content, spaces, and technology that made them possible.
In many cases AV installations blur the line between stunning visual display or audio experience into the realm of art. This category celebrates AV as art, but for a purpose – whether it is to amaze, create a cultural centerpiece, energize people for their day, reinvigorate a functional space, or display information in a stimulating way – it is art and purpose in one application.
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This category celebrates when AV is used strategically to motivate potential attendees to get out into the real world to experience something they can’t see, do, or feel anywhere else. These are unique, typically temporary one-time or time-limited experiences that one must physically attend in order to experience.
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This category highlights applications where technology gets personal and allows an experience or interaction to be tailored to the individual. Any applications of AV that enable the environment to connect to you as an individual, and therefore connects you better to your environment or the brand or experience you are having, will be considered. Examples of projects that might fit this category include personal greeting on a guest hotel room media, retail digital signage changing content based on personal demographic, a university classroom where technology responds to personal presets of an instructor.
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This category recognizes illusionary or simulated environments that envelop individuals into an encompassing multi-sensory experience utilizing content, space, and technology.
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In this category, the judges are looking for applied AV that creates spaces that are constantly changing, adaptable, and facilitate the activities that happen within them, enabling a better experience. These spaces must be fit for multiple purposes, easily changed, and, in numerous configurations, optimize the activity happening within them.
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The value of person-to-person connections and sharing is undisputed, and this category celebrates applications of AV that bring people as close together as possible via technology, when they cannot be together in real person.
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AVIXA is pleased to announce the 2021 AV Experience Awards finalists.
The increased use of cloud-based conferencing and collaboration solutions has a big impact on network.
The education sector is forecast to spend $23.4 billion in AV products and services in 2021 globally.