A festival which was born on the final day of the ancient Mayan calendar in 2012 has marked its tenth anniversary in style in December, with Funktion-One sound systems on all of its three stages. The one-day Day Zero event, the brainchild of organisers Damian Lazarus and Crosstown Rebels, is…
Nescum Trison has installed a three-sided 16 metre LED digital totem inside the largest department store in Latin America. The totem forms the centrepiece of the 25,000 sqm Falabella Retail Centre in Santiago, Chile. The central totem can be seen by visitors as they travel up the centre's escalators, with…
A video mapping show has been projected onto the side of a recreated Aztec pyramid to mark the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest. Memoria Luminosa is a 16 minute piece which commemorates the 500th anniversary of the fall of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, and has been designed by an international team…
The Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, also known by its abbreviated name UFM, is one of the top universities in Latin America. For 50 years, UFM has been following its mission of teaching and disseminating the ethical, legal and economic principles of a society of free and responsible individuals.…
An international travel industry event with around 1,000 people present in person has gone ahead with no Covid transmission among the crew or attendees. The World Travel & Tourism Council's annual Global Summit, which also attracted tens of thousands of viewers online, took place from 26-27 April in Mexico. Live…
Cinépolis, the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third biggest worldwide, has chosen nsign.tv as the platform to manage its digital signage channels across its movie theatres in Mexico, Brazil and part of the US. Cinépolis operates 862 cinema complexes with 6,664 movie theatres in 17 countries. It…
Estadio Unico Madre de Ciudades is the largest stadium in the province of Santiago del Estero in Argentina with a capacity of 29,000. Completed in October 2020, the stadium will host matches for upcoming editions of the Copa America and the Supercopa Argentina. To meet the project deadline at the…
A large section of an LED video wall has collapsed onto a TV sports presenter mid-broadcast, crushing the man against his desk. ESPN Colombia broadcaster Carlos Orduz was bruised and hurt his nose but did not suffer any fractures and was otherwise unhurt. Orduz was one of six people visible…
Parque Global, the largest real estate development in Latin America, located in São Paulo, Brazil, recently opened a spectacular showroom featuring a mosaic of 34 Christie LCD panels. Parque Global is a megaproject with five high-rise residential towers with a total of 672 luxury condominiums, a shopping area, children’s playgrounds, sports…
Widely recognised as one of the best concert venues in the world, Mexico's Auditorio Nacional’s (AN) was built in 1952 as a site for equestrian events. The building is made of riveted iron – the same technique featured on the Eiffel Tower - and has undergone extensive redesigns throughout the…
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