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Buenos Aires 2018LED at the Youth Olympic Games opening ceremony

Eventos Globales · Obelisco

Eventos Globales provided the LED screens for the opening ceremony of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games at the Obelisco. This photographic case brings together preparations and the ceremony, documenting a project from the family’s technical history in Argentina, before GLMedia’s U.S. operations.

Opening ceremony at the Obelisco, with LED screens, flags and the Olympic rings. October 6, 2018.
Eventos Globales · LEDBuenos Aires · 2018

Project carried out by Eventos Globales in Argentina in 2018. GLMedia presents this archive as part of its family technical heritage, not as a contract executed by Global LED Media LLC.

Project facts

Screens in the heart of Buenos Aires

Event
Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games — opening ceremony
Location
Obelisco · Avenida 9 de Julio · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ceremony
October 6, 2018
Preparations photographed
October 4, 2018
Company responsible for the screens
Eventos Globales
Documented contribution
LED screens at the Obelisco

The October 6 photographs show the ceremony around the Obelisco, with LED screens behind the delegations and their flags. The October 4 photographs provide a different perspective: preparations, segmented LED bands and the technical space around them.

The record connects the audience-facing result with the work behind the screens: large-format LED surfaces, segmented bands and visual test patterns. It follows the project from the technical area to the imagery accompanying the gathering of delegations.

Eventos Globales carried out this work in Argentina in 2018, before GLMedia began its U.S. operations in 2021. The companies share family ownership, but they are separate businesses. We include the project as part of that history, with the credit to Eventos Globales.

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The LED contribution and the photographic record

01

LED screens at the Obelisco

Eventos Globales carried out the screen work for this opening ceremony. The photographs show multiple rectangular LED surfaces behind the delegations, integrating video into the outdoor setting.

02

Preparation and visual testing

The preparation photographs show cyan grid patterns across overhead and lateral LED bands. Front and side views reveal the segmented geometry of the installation.

03

From backstage to the ceremony

The archive brings together technical-area views, cases bearing the Eventos Globales name, and the screens during the ceremony. Seven original photographs connect preparations with the audience-facing result.

About this historical case

Which Olympic event was this?

It was the opening ceremony of the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, held at the Obelisco on October 6, 2018.

Which company carried out the screen work?

Eventos Globales carried out the screen work in Argentina. This is a historical case from the family technical heritage, not a project executed by GLMedia’s U.S. company.

Did this scope include the entire opening ceremony?

The confirmed contribution is the LED screens. This case does not claim overall production, artistic direction, projection on the Obelisco or all of the equipment visible in the photographs.

Sources and project credit

Pablo Belluscio supplied these seven original photographs and confirmed the screen work by Eventos Globales. The photo metadata dates the preparation images to October 4 and the ceremony images to October 6, 2018. The City of Buenos Aires confirms the event, opening date and location; that official source does not certify the supplier’s technical scope.

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