Paul Vershbow has been programming multi-media imagery since 1973, beginning with industrial theater (sales meetings) in the early days of computer-controlled 35 mm. slide presentations, working his way through punch tape, tone pulses, and various pre-DOS and early-DOS-based devices that attempted to control systems with upwards of fifty slide projectors.
Twenty years later, he started programming for “legitimate” theater, using different systems and media, beginning with slides and moving on to large format Pani and PIGI film projections, Trax and Medialon show control systems, and Watchout media servers for Broadway, regional theatre, opera, and ballet, working directly with numerous video designers and collaboratively with the other production designers.
Vershbow considers himself fortunate to have entered the field in an analog environment, allowing him to appreciate the positive and negative aspects of both that world and the digital world in which we are now immersed.
