User:Eduardo Capriles



Eduardo Capriles, Electro-optical Engineer, Laser Display Specialist, Film Director, Producer and Cinematographer.

Eduardo Capriles founder and owner of UNITED LASER ARTISTS INC. A professional Laser Lighting and Cinematography Company based in Miami Beach, FL with over 25 years of experience in the intelligent lighting business. Inspired by the famous Laserium Shows, Vari*Lite Automated Lighting, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.

Professional History: Eduardo Capriles started his professional career in 1986, closely following the Vari*lite Automated Lighting developments, knowing that motorized pan and tilt lighting was the way of the future in Concert Lighting. He experimented and builded his own prototype of lighting fixture with the singular exception in which he used coherent light, and vector scanning, creating a product similar to what is now commercially known as the Emulator and then he decided to create his own experimental Laser projection systems. After finishing studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville, he moved to Miami where he studied Electronics and Audio Engineering and Television production, later he started working performing refurbishment of ION gas lasers and for XEROX and Deltana Technologies, using an ION pump and clean room environment,  performing  specialized  techniques for  refurbishing  Argon and Krypton tubes with beryllium-oxide cores and simultaneously learning Electro-optics applications.

Once he was familiarized with lasers and Electro-optics technology, he started developing artistic laser applications. Originally started performing Laser demonstrations for private audiences in a scientific laboratory transformed into showroom, and then for larger and larger audiences as a live performer or Laserist for Corporate  Events,  Rock Concerts  and  World Class Night Clubs. Soon after, he was in demand for performing various shows that took him to travel all around the world. He worked in collaboration with with Barry Ward from Laser Dimensions and Bob Ash from New Method Lasers and later collaborated with Tom Harman and Horacio Pugliese from Lasernet programming and installing various shows. Capriles also collaborated with Jerry Wyant from Laser Media, Laser Show Systems and Alex Hey and Jeff Silverman from Laser Fantasy International, Coy Comart  from International Laser and Light and he also team up  with highly talented Lighting Designers Peter More from Light Speed Productions, Mike Mc. Millan and Ross Berger. He then formed a production team of talented Artists, Technicians, and celebrity DJ's such as Abel Aguilera, Junior Vasquez, Peter Ruhofer, Lazaro Leon, and David Padilla who started a music revolution at The Warsaw Ball Room in South Beach. His Company was instrumental in the Production of ICON 1235, a highly successful weekly event in South Beach while he was working for the recording Artist Prince. His Company produced several projects in New York such as Club Mirage, and other Trendy Night Spots. In the late 80's Eduardo was commissioned to design and program a high Power Laser Show system in what is now is known as MANSION, a famous Large Art Deco building of historical value located at 1235 Washington Ave. in the heart of South Beach. For 18 years this was the space where Eduardo Capriles showcased his Laser technology and artistry and is here where he tested and experimented with various volumetric multiple symmetrical mirror bouncing set ups. The large space with 40' Ceilings allow him to test every possible laser beam mirror bouncing configuration using a minimum of 30 primary and 30 secondary mirrors forming complex laser symmetry and transforming the building architecture. In this space, he also tested and perfected a programmable laser color sequencer, direct targeting remote scanners without the use of fiber optics, testing of all sort of diffraction arrays, and Nebula/Lumia effects, scanner based mirror bouncing sequences, and is here where he programmed a diverse library of aerial shows and sequences that could be perform as a virtual operator perfectly in sync with any type of music or rhythm known worldwide as the Autoscan programs, creating the perception that the lasers became an additional musical instrument.

The show brought him worldwide artistic exposure and recognition, then he started to get  busy with  ever larger  projects. These shows captured the attention of several event promoters, executive producers and Lighting designers. Capriles incorporated the Company in 1987, and then he was  asked to help design various large   projects in collaboration with LASERNET. Since 1987, the Company has been working with the leaders of the Entertainment Industry in various productions including projects for  UNIVERSAL STUDIOS,  ROYAL CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL and CELEBRITY CRUISE LINES, Lasernet and the Company has performed work for  some of the trendiest Night Clubs  around  the world. The Company was involved in the Production of spectacular and highly successful shows  for Producer Mark Baker and Jeffrey Sanker to name a few, and was one of the original Laser Show Companies used in Large Outdoor Electronic Music Festivals such as Zen, Time, and Ultra.

In 1997 his Company UNITED LASER ARTISTS INC. introduced into commerce THE COSMIC RAY series Laser Projection systems, a practical design that became the ideal solution  for   high  precision,  mirror bouncing laser architecture designs, with minimal electronic drifting. His Company is currently marketing advanced diode pumped solid state laser projectors and  his Company in 2011 started   to produce High Definition Video Services and Digital Cinematic Film Productions and he was elected as the Miami Dade College Film Society President in 2011 for three consecutive semesters, he was also instrumental in the creation of the first MDC Students Film Festival an annual event that has become an incentive for film students to produce short films. Nowadays, Eduardo Capriles looks towards forming his own movie studio in collaboration with other cinematographers always with a profound understanding of how to balance artistic values with science and the latest technology trends in the Entertainment Industry.

Eduardo Capriles professional approach to business has always been based on good communication embracing the Visual Arts with a dynamic combination of Science, Technology and Artistic Creativity. He promotes team work and  collaboration  among    producers,  event planners, Film makers, architects and performing Artists for the advancement  and development of  Spectacular Productions. Capriles is always looking for new challenges towards the implementation of  cutting edge  technology as a  tool to express the a unique vision and demands of his clients. His approach to business is simple, he loves what he does  with  passion, but is equally  complex in that he is a perfectionist, and a little (control freak), and that feeling is reflected in his work, he often not only satisfy  but also surpass the expectations of his clients with his unique approach to the value of a well choreographed and executed production.