Tetragram for Enlargement.

Tetragram for Enlargement (2009)

The mysterious boys over at Apparati Effimeri just started up their experimental video studio last year but already are being hyped up and respected by the likes of Fast Company, Fabrik and Gradient Magazine. They work primarily with a technology called Projection Mapping, which synthesizes cad programs, stage lighting and dramatic animation by way of projection onto surfaces. One projector is all it takes to produce some completely insane effects. In their project for the Itinerario Festival in Spain, they took a castle and completely threw out all preconcieved notions of what devastating effects large scale projection can have on an audience. The video has been cut down into clips, but I assure you that everything you are seeing is done purely with projection and an immense amount of time programming the mapping onto the building.

This technique has been around for a few years and a vjay/graffiti artist crossbreed has come of it. Many of these artists only need a projector and some skills with projection mapping, and they can apply these effects to skyscrapers, and monuments with virtually no harm done in the style that someone might spray tag a building. Much more fun to look at than graffiti and no jail-time. Other operations besides AE include ANTIVJ, NuFormer, and NeoProj. Check them all out! But be sure to check out that video of Apparati Effimari's Tetragram for Enlargement if you missed the link above, click here. Be sure to watch it all the way through because the last few effects are absolutely filthy.