A Film: Olympic Design: Mexico 1968: Visual Identity: Lance Wyman

2012

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Responsive Eyes looks closely at a series of temporary-built environments created by the design team for the organizing committee of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Integrating architecture, visual communication, and mass media, the team created kinetic environments, or spaces that estranged user-beholders’ visual and spatial perceptions, inviting immersion and interaction to produce a holistic image of a thoroughly modern, socially integrated Mexico at a time when this view of Mexico was not necessarily held by audiences at home and abroad. The team’s design choices demonstrated cosmopolitan awareness of global aesthetics and discursive currents, including optical and kinetic art as well as recent advances in scientific investigation that inspired new modes of urban vision and engagement, part of an international renewal of modernist techniques and aspirations. These environments also responded to more local concerns, including Mexico City’s ongoing capitalist urbanization and a reticulation of the modernist architect’s professional and social purchase in Mexico in light of increasing globalization. By situating the Olympic environments within the larger context of exhibitions of kinetic art and art happenings from the period, this article highlights the possibilities and limits of transformation envisaged by Mexico 68’s kinetic environments, arguing that their design provides a window through which to assess Mexican architects’ claim to act as expert mediators between the city and state, architecture and art, Mexico and the wider world.

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Symposium Proceedings. Also available at: http://issuu.com/balkanlocus-focus2012/docs/blftemplate_prototype_9_me_ca_07

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