UC IRVINE HIB 100 SCREENING ROOM
Irvine, California

The so-called "Smart" Podium. The touchscreen allows control of all A/V functions for classes and lectures. The company who installed it still hasn’t gotten all the bugs out (and it’s been over six years!) and the tie-in to the audio is full of hum and noise ... perhaps because they didn’t know how to connect the shields on the lines. It weighs about 250+ pounds and is a bitch to move out of the way for film screenings.

August 2010 photo from the Tony Bandiera Jr collection.